[ARC5] Using SCR-274N

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 30 Mar 2013 at 20:11, Mike Everette wrote:

> Perhaps the point has already been made, perhaps done to death... but,
> to my way of thinking, the ultimate SCR-274N/ARC-5 receiver setup is
> the "ARC-5 Triple Superhet" idea published in QST in the late 50s. 
> This yields a triple conversion receiver, by combining one of the HF
> receivers which has been stripped down and its BFO made into a second
> conversion oscillator to take the IF of the high freq receiver down to
> 455 kc to feed into a BC-453 or R-23/ARC-5.

I have two of those here: they came in a batch of ARC-5 stuff from an old boss who left 
everything he had to me in his estate.

They are excellent for 80 and 40, and if you were lucky enough to find an R-25, it would cover 
160 meters too. Then crystal controlled converters for 20 and up.
 
> Even a barn-door, four-track-railroad-wide Command Set receiver still
> beats stuff like the Hallicrafters S-38 from back in the day. 

Boy! Ain't THAT the truth?!? How any of us EVER made even one contact using those POS 
receivers, I'll never understand.

Yet, I used a borrowed S-38D to work my first DX, and used a free, junker S-41G, which was 
the predecssor to the S-38 to work many, many stations and not a little DX "back in the day", 
even on 20 meters. The entire 20 meter band is almost 3/16' wide on the dial.

I have another S-41G now. I pull it out every once in a while just to reactivate the remains of 
my masochistic feelings of 1957 or so.

Its kinda like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer: it feels so good when you quit.

If I had had an ARC-5 receiver, I would have been in seventh heaven.

Gee...

Ken W7EKB