[ARC5] Inspired Hack Job

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

Ed Marriner, W6BLZ, was a very well-known builder and 
author "back in the day" with many articles in CQ and
maybe QST. 
 
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> From: brokenthumb at live.com
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 22:46:22 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inspired Hack Job
> 
> Western Radio Amateur for July 1960 has a 4 page article "Forty Meter Transmitter Receiver" by Ed Marriner W6BLZ. It is a 2 tube, crystal controlled TX packed onto the RX chassis. For good measure, a 7mc to 200-500kc receive converter is also shoehorned in there which fed the 453 front end, converter, modified IF and a product detector. CW only. The construction description starts; "As usual, I took my BC 453 all apart and cleaned the chassis by using paint thinner dipping in hot draino (sic) and wiping off with Di-Chromate to make it look pretty." From the 3 grainy, fuzzy, mottled and poorly halftoned photos, it is safe to say the rig is 'extensively modified'.
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> The June-July 1961 issue has an advertisement for "A New Book From WRA" "A SSB Transceiver from the BC-453". This is what is in the PDF link mentioned in another post. It is a completely different rig with different tube line up, parts placement, basic architecture yet using the same cabinet and chassis. Looking at the photos in that PDF, it is safe to say the rig is 'extremely modified'.
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> > Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 23:47:03 -0500
> > From: scr287 at att.net
> > To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [ARC5] Inspired Hack Job
> >
> > There was a little magazine called
> > Western Radio Amateur that had the conversion
> > article of the BC-453 to a SSB exciter. Generated
> > SSB at 85 kc IIRC.
> >
> > Actually the article was only a description. You
> > had to request the full conversion article by
> > mail. I think I have it somewhere around here,
> > but finding it would take a serious search.
> >
> > Jack Antonio WA7DIA/4