[ARC5] Inspired Hack Job

[john rose]

It probably works at least as well as most commercial equipment available at the time and certainly a lot better than my old Halli S-38 or Hammi 129-X. Stability, selectivity and the ability to read frequency down to less than one kc was extremely expensive. Collins 75? You could buy a new car for the price!! Here you have 95% of the state-of-the-art performance for $5 or $10 and a lot of sweat!! In those days my mom could feed a family of four with less than $45 a week, so even then the conversion was not cheap. Uncle Sam paid about $5000. for a new R-390, a price which would have bought you a house in the town where I grew up. The 10 meter BC-454 is a thing of historical interest in and of it's own right. Using it is like Saturday night cruising in your neat old car. Is that worth the effort? Wanna drag?
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> From: macklinbob at msn.com
> To: kgordon2006 at frontier.com; arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 08:42:53 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inspired Hack Job
>
> Ken,
>
> In 1960 would a ham be satisfied with the way you have it working now.
>
> We wen't as fussy then!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inspired Hack Job
>
>
> > On 6 Mar 2013 at 5:18, David Stinson wrote:
> >
> >> I have seen and handled hundreds of "hack" jobs.
> >> I believe it accurate to say that 90% or more
> >> were unfinished and/or unusable "train wrecks"
> >> which never did another lick of useful work.
> >
> > Like that "10 Meter BC-454" I have been working with...
> >
> > Although now (after a month's off and on work on it) it works about as
> > well as
> > can be expected, it took far more work than the result warranted.
> >
> > Ken W7EKB
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