[ARC5] a crying shame?

[J. Forster]

It's clearly a Frankenceiver: Mostly a BCB Type 12 w/ an ARC-5 tuning
assembly.

IMO, the only open question is where was the surgery done? The ARC plant
or some ham's basement.

YMMV,

-John

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> Well, that makes more sense.  I couldn't make out the printing.  However,
> I
> still never saw a BCB Type 12 with a tuning dial.
>
> In a message dated 03/18/2014 10:18:27 AM Central Daylight Time,
> kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:
>> On 18 Mar 2014 at 10:22, gordon white wrote:
>>
>> >There were some early post-war receivers in grey paint, either
>> prototype
>> >type 12s or very  early production sets that did come with dials. Not
>> >many. If the set looks clean and has the right dial, it could be one of
>> >those.
>> >   - Gordon White
>>
>> It had an incorrect dial, Gordon. A 6 - 9.1 dial on a BC band receiver.
>> It
>> has
>> 239 KHz IFs. It had obviously been "hacked".
>>
>> And it went for $150 to someone.
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
>
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