[ARC5] Inspired hack job

[Robert Eleazer]

You know it occurs to me that you would have considerable difficulty in finding a receiver that would do a better job over the 190 -550 KHZ range as compared to an ATA, BC-453, R-11A, or others of that series.  


I very much doubt the ADF sets, either WWII vintage or more modern, would do as well as a BC-453 or its LF brethren.  After all, the 453 was designed for com use on the control tower frequencies, not driving an indicator.

 

I have not done a comparison, but I doubt a BC-348 can hold a candle to a BC-453.  I built a Tec Tec receiver kit some years ago that covers 100 KHZ -30 MHZ; it cost me $200 in kit form and is a nice design, but its performance at the lower frequencies was just terrible. 

 

Unless you are talking something like an R-389, I doubt that even today you could do better than a BC-453 for 190 - 550 KHZ, and mostly not as well.   

 

Given the gradual Federal abandonment of NDB's the 453 may just be the best thing ever produced for that band and the best thing that ever will be produced in significant quantities.  


Wayne