[ARC5] that one cent command receiver - (long reply)

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Les,

Your plans for using your radio in that special event are somewhere 
along the same line as my plans. I want to set up four of them in a row 
with some homewbrewd glue (control circuits) external to the radios. 
Mostly I would operate them like a bandswitched receiver on 600, 160, 
80, and 40 meters. I didn't think I would actually get a receiver to 
cover 160 meters. I had plans to use one of my four BC-453/R23 receivers 
with a 160 meter converter for that band. I'll use them with homebrewed, 
CW (and maybe AM) transmitters on the air. I was pleased to get this 
thing so that I have a set of the four radios that were purpose built 
for each of those bands.

Mine is missing the top cover and that bottom cover as well. If I can't 
find replacements I will fabricate them here. The bottom cover will be 
easy enough (or maybe less difficult) but I've been getting some 
practice shaping sheet aluminum and brass so I will have a go at that 
top cover, too if I can't find them. Mine will be dressed in black 
wrinkle so brass will be out of sight.

I think that bottom cover will help immensely when a wild paper clip or 
other errant metal slips underneath the radio. We don't want to let the 
smoke out after putting in the effort to resurrect them. It's a flat 
piece (flat is easy) with some short square (square is easy) posts 
riveted on (rivets are easy). Getting the posts tapped and correctly 
located will be the tedious part.

My set will include a shrine, perhaps with a burning candle, in memory 
of those young men flying in noisy bombers far from home, cold and 
afraid - especially the ones who did not survive. I'll think of them 
from my warm, comfortable, safe radio shack while I sip my coffee and 
operate or even look at those radios. The radios are in various states 
of repair and cleanliness (mostly working now) and I think of those 
other men all those years ago who made it possible for me to even have a 
radio shack while I work on them or see them on the shelf.

73,

Bill  KU8H