[ARC5] Inspired hack job

[Dennis Monticelli]

I have found the BC-453 to be an excellent LF receiver.  Set for light
coupling and used with a long wire I have logged about 100 beacons from
casual operation here in CA.  A small XTAL controlled converter on the rear
apron puts in on the lower ham bands.  One handy feature is the ability to
go field portable using a quiet power source....batteries.   A stack of
about 7 nine-volters plus lead-acid for filament is all you need.

Dennis AE6C

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon
<kgordon2006 at frontier.com>wrote:

> On 6 Mar 2013 at 19:51, john rose wrote:
>
> > Add the SP-600 in it's several versions. I am hoping my memory is
> > serving, and not sieving, at this point yet I vaguely recall reading
> > Halli
>
> I think you mean Hammarlund, John.
>
> > advertisements that listed 6 versions. Order one LF band and you
> > lost 30-54 mhz. Order 2 and you lose the next highest band and so on
> > until you could get all 6 bands under 500khz. A couple of SP-600 VLF
> > rigs have shown up on the Bay of E and go for some very, very pretty
> > pennies.
>
> I had two of those once. They were VERY nice receivers. I had to sell
> both, and, as you say, I
> got some very pretty pennies for them.
>
> I also had three R-389s. I have one left.
>
> > Somewhere around here I have an RBL rig that needs work. When it did
> > work, WOW was it great.
>
> Yes. It was a National design. I have a couple of those too. One here that
> I use periodically. It
> isn't as stable or as well built as the RAK, but it works very well.
>
> > I also am fairly certain the Rycom 2174 Selective Voltmeter is still
> > around here. It was the reason I didn't the RBL and now it's on the
> > fritz. At it's narrowest selectivity I could tune it under 1 kHz, yes
> > under one kilohertz. Never had the antenna to hear down there. There
> > is a long list of selective voltmeters that have routinely been used
> > for DX.
>
> Yes. I have an HP selective level voltmeter that tunes down to the 1 Khz
> range.
>
> I also have an RBA, a couple of SRR-11s, and a few others.
>
> And I agree with Mike, they are better receivers for MF/LF than the
> BC-453....
>
> But I also insist that the BC-453 and R-23(*)/ARC-5s are the very finest
> single-band receivers
> ever built.
>
> For their size and circuit design, they can't be beat...and there are lots
> of them still around to
> be used as monitor receivers for the 630 Meter band.
>
> And I can put a dozen or more "ARC-5" receivers in the bench space
> required by one RBA.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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