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

[john rose]

Yes, I saw that ‘alleged T22’.

I drooled over that ‘alleged T22’

I opened my wallet. Empty.

I checked the credit card. Maxxed to the MaxMax.

I cried over that ‘alleged T22’


I put it on my watch list.


After it sold BIN for $49, I was able to look at it again. My memory bell got rung. Many decades ago (drat, am I really old enough to say that?) I was successful in purchasing a T16 of dubious quality and a low price to match. I pulled it out of cold storage and found my memory had served and not sieved. C67, the oscillator pad, was modified in exactly the same manner as this one right down to the same rotors left in the same slots. I wonder if the same guy modded both. That brings up the question of the hour. That padder has the same number of plates as the HF rigs, that my ruler says are the same size as the HF rigs, and in a frame which is the same size as the HF rigs. Does anyone have any reason the two part numbers cannot be interchanged?  Or why I couldn’t replace this rotor with one from an HF rig to keep the original part number?







From: Kenneth G. Gordon
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎July‎ ‎31‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎48‎ ‎PM
To: David Stinson
Cc: arc5 mail list





On 31 Jul 2014 at 16:13, David Stinson wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> I missed it.
> (thinking of getting a rope... and a tree.... and looking for a 
> chair.....) 

Well, get a big rope, a strong tree, and a wide chair, cause I am seriously 
thinking of joining you... :-(

It even still had that port down low on the left side of the front panel where 
the loading coil connected... WITH its cap.

The "window" was missing, as was the loading coil, but everything else 
appeared to be there...including that extra-long capacitor near the front 
underneath.

The center capacitor looked as though it had had plates pulled, but that one 
looked like the normal ones.

Ken W7EKB
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