[ARC5] Type 12s with tuning dials.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 19 Mar 2014 at 15:11, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> I went back and more carefully studied the photos and made the following 
> conclusions:
> 
> The receiver was an (probably NOS) R-10 or R-10A.  You can see the silk 
> screened J-506 just below the 6-9.1 dial.  The two Phillips screw heads just
> above the dial are plugging the holes for the rivets that originally attached
> the nameplate.  If the receiver was early enough, the tuning capacitor frame
> probably still had the holes for mounting the parts to mount and drive the dial,
> which could be taken from any junker.  I would guess that the receiver still
> covers the BCB.

A closer view of the top of the open receiver shows very clearly that the IF 
cans are marked 239 Kc.

That makes it certain, as far as I am concerned, that the receiver covers the 
BC band.

>From the fact that the dial is from a BC-455 I deduced that it was "ham 
hacked" and not factory made. The factory would have installed the correct 
dial on it.

Ken W7EKB