[ARC5] ARC-1

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

I had mostly converted what I think was a new ARC-1 except for putting it on the air.  When a tornado destroyed our house in 1999, it was one of the boxes that I chose to go to the dump along with a really nice BC-221 and LM-323 (I think it was).  I simply did not have the room in a rental storage unit to keep it until a new house could be found.  My ham logs back to Novice days in 1953 fell victim to the same fate.  Poor decisions often occur under stressful conditions.  Now I wish I had stuff back, but it is what it is. 
 
I still have the SCR-522's transmitter in a rack cabinet, but the RA-62 power supplies also went to the landfill. 
 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* k2gkk hotmail com * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF & FAA (Ret.) * 
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> From: kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:18:03 -0700
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ARC-1
> 
> On 31 Jul 2014 at 13:23, David Stinson wrote:
> 
> > >I had an ARC-1 once and considered it to be one of the nicest 
> > >VHF rigs I had
> > 
> > The ARC-1 is an engineering marvel.  It is also "far and away"
> > the most difficult WWII radio to repair and to keep working
> > that I have ever encountered.   As my Daddy would say:
> > "Son, that one's a bear....." 
> 
> Yea, verily indeed.
> 
> I sure had that sort of trouble with it then. I was only about 20.
> 
> Ken W7EKB