[ARC5] Looks Very Interesting

[Mike Hanz]

On 11/22/2013 10:43 AM, Jay Coward wrote:

> This is the attempt to autotune the ARC-5. It's called the Yardley Spot tuner. I have the R-26 and R-27 mounted in a dual rack mount. To do this you have to relocate the control connector to the front. The control box for this was experimental and never produced in quantity.

The original two pole six position switch assembly, true...you had to 
provide some sort of enclosure for it, it had no markings on it other 
than channel numbers, and that's not a good strategy for large scale 
installation...  However, as I mentioned earlier this morning, there is 
a C-188/ART-13, C-189/ART-13, and C-284/AR shown at 
http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/box.htm - and the serial numbers for 
these number in the hundreds.  You can recognize the first two control 
boxes as designed for the Yardney because they have "Preset Receiver" 
channels from 1 to 6 shown on the front panel.  The C-284 could 
reportedly be used with both the Yardney *or* the ARR-15, and they 
dropped the channel number limitation reminder on the front 
panel...guess you were supposed to know by now that the Yardney had only 
six channels.

> I plan on modifying two ART-13 boxes to accomplish remote control.

That'll work too. :-)

> All on my infinite to do list.

I have one of those as well...:'(

Very 73,
  - Mike