[ARC5] ARC-5 T-20 Freq and recent eBay idiocy

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 31 Jul 2014 at 12:10, Mike Everette via ARC5 wrote:

> When I made a 160 meter transmitter from a BC-457, I put 2 mc at the top end of
> the dial and played with the tracking adjustments until 1.8 mc came in at the
> middle.  As mentioned before, the VFO and PA coils were completely rewound,
> except for the small coil inside the form of the VFO coil.

Isn't that coil only for the filaments of the 1626?

> This transmitter actually worked a bit better than getting on 160 with a retuned
> 2.1-3 transmitter.

I had planned to do much the same as you have with one of my severely 
hacked transmitters here.
 
> As for the tuning caps in the transmitters, I think all of them from the 3-4 mc
> through the 7-9 mc use the same tuning caps and air padders.

They do, as I recall it.

>  Not quite sure
> about the 2.1-3 but it may be the same as well.

I think those are too.

>  The ARC-5 transmitters covering
> 500-800 kc, 800-1300 kc, and 1300-2100 kc are very different, though, with
> regard to variable caps.

Yes. They are a completely different ball of wax.

By the way, did anyone (besides myself) see the T-17/ARC-5 (1.3 to 2.1 Mc) 
transmitter that was recently sold by an eBay seller as a T-21 (or T-22)? 
Although it had been hacked, IMHO it was prefectly restorable.

As I remember it, it sold for something under $60.

If I had gotten there first, it would be on its way here. :-(

Ken W7EKB