[ARC5] Using SCR-274N

[Mike Everette]

Wonder didja ever "git lit" by that S-120?

Acey-deucey radio with metal case = Death Trap.

It'll FILL you... wit' th' gul-LOW-ry Of th' Lord!  

And if your BC-459 or Globe Scout 680 was cathode keyed (I know the 680 was), and you grabbed the key wrong AND touched the receiver, you got a double whammy.

I didn't have an Acey-Deucey receiver, but did have a Hallicrapper with leaky line bypass caps... almost as bad.  60 vac on the chassis.

A few years later, I darn near met Saint Peter because of bad line bypasses in an audio amp that I was installing in a store, for background music.  I reached behind an air conditioning duct to fish out a speaker lead, and the back of my head touched the amp chassis....

Sha-ZAM!

Ever since then, the very first thing I do to any piece of old gear is, CUT OUT those &@#*! bypass caps; I do not trust them.

By the way, the Globe Scout series is my favorite tube type Field Day rig; I have a 65A.  I key it through a relay, which also keys the VFO for full break-in.  Works well.

73

Mike
W4DSE



--- On Sun, 3/31/13, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Using SCR-274N
> To: "ARC-5 Maillist" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013, 12:14 AM
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Everette" <radiocompass at yahoo.com>
> 
> > ...Granted, you may hear a lot of other signals in the
> passband;
> > but that's where SKILL comes into play.  The human
> brain
> > is by far a better selective filter than anything else,
> if properly trained.
> 
> My very first "dit" on the air was a BC-459 and my first
> receiver
> was a Hallicrafters S-120.  You could hear the whole
> Novice band at once,
> I think.  We didn't mind.  Us "po-boys" only had
> one or two crystals.
> Mine was on 7167 KC.  We rarely called "CQ."  You
> would tap:
> "Dit... DiDiDit...Dit"  and way up or down the band
> you'd hear:  "Dit...Dit"  and then send "DE etc."
> and away you go.
> The BC-459 was soon replaced with a Globe Scout 680A,
> but I worked all over the place with that S-120.
> Guess I "didn't know it wouldn't work."  ;-)
> 
> 73 Dave AB5S
> 
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