[ARC5] If I Were a Rich Man...

[john rose]

Diversity reception with a single tuning knob. Space and/or polarization would be simple. If you could figure some way to sync both oscillators or have one 12k8 oscillator control both mixers, you would have a nearly professional setup (if the old articles in Ham Radio Magazine are to be believed).

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:13:20 -0500
Subject: Re: [ARC5] If I Were a Rich Man...
From: ka1kaq at gmail.com
To: brokenthumb at live.com
CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:46 AM, john rose <brokenthumb at live.com> wrote:

a very, very rich man.....

Actually that looked like a pretty fair, even cheap price for everything included. This past weekend I paired up a decent ARA 46145 receiver & dynamotor with a C-26 box & MT-7A/MT-5 rack & shock I had sitting around, wouldn't sell the package for 4-5 times that amount. Also dug out a stock BC-453 and HB supply to use for LF/beacon reception. Wouldn't sell that for anything close, either. The days of regularly finding these things at hamfests or Fair Radio NIB or in even good condition for $10 are long gone. And gasoline isn't 29.9 cents a gallon anymore either. 



I would be interested in that "T" he has in the control cable. Perhaps we will have to rethink the existance of such a device for the ARC5.

Interesting, indeed. And clearly an ARC part by the stamped logo. 


Question is, what receivers would you have set up to be tuned in unison and why? I suppose you could use it to tune multiple receivers to different, pre-determined frequencies but it would take some careful calibration up front. Of course, assuming a control box that would switch out/mute one receiver for another, you could always touch up the tuning if needed after switching.


First one I've ever seen. But I'm no expert, either. (o:

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4