[ARC5] Inspired Hack Job

[Ian Wilson]

The thing in the front looks like a changeover switch, looking
at the ?coax running in/out around the front.

Train wreck it may be, doesn't make it less of a puzzle to work
out what its function was intended to be.

73, ian K3IMW

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon
<kgordon2006 at frontier.com>wrote:

> On 5 Mar 2013 at 17:37, Ian Wilson wrote:
>
> > Interesting. As well as the large added IF can above the chassis, there
> > is a small one below the chassis.
>
> Not to mention that "thing" hanging out of the front.
>
> > One of the tubes is a 6AG7. Some sort of VFO perhaps (with 6AG7 as
> > output stage? Doesn't seem right).
>
> There was an article in some ham magazine way back then which detailed an
> SSB exciter
> built around a BC-453. I suspect that is what that thing is. I told the
> seller so a few days ago.
>
> I am not sure, but I don't think that particular one was ever finished.
>
> I have never seen that particular article: I was told about it by someone
> who knew. It may
> have even been in a GE Ham News, or some such magazine like it. RCA Ham
> Tips, maybe.
> The designer, as I remember it, had a W2 call.
>
> I may bid on it....MAY, I say...
>
> Ken W7EKB
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