[ARC5] Attitudes toward the value of old military radios

[J Mcvey via ARC5]

To all,

I meant no disrespect to the restorers or the equipment. I am NOT "experimenting" with these units, in fact I am trying to keep the modular and configuration flexibility spirit of the original design. I am ,in fact, a restorer myself.
All mods are reversed and sometimes that's almost a total rebuild of the transmitter!

I do have modern radios and I don't need ARC-5s or SCR-274s to be on the air. 
As for "respect of the equipment", I have owned a R-26 in completely original condition since I acquired it at age 11. 

My original point was that if one was to consider functionality vs. investment on todays crowded bands, the prices of the antiques are very high priced. I like to use the antiques that I restore, but the percentage of opportunity is low when there is an outbreak of CW contesting.
The prospect of getting on the AM phone band with the SCR-274 series is nil without a BC-456, so yes, I'm a bit frustrated about the prices-for an AM rig! So the transmitters sit on the shelf in wait of extremely expensive bits and pieces such as the modulator, control boxes, microphone, etc... 

I am working towards the idea of building  a 12v to 600v SMPS and a basic cw keying system fashioned after the original circuit design of the BC-456 ( relay and all) until I can acquire the "real thing" .
This can be done at a fraction of the expense while I wait for the right deal to come along. It's temporary substitution, NOT hacking or "experimenting" !!!
















On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:13 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
 


On 30 Sep 2014 at 16:23, KG4KGL wrote:

> Or the other southern saying, "he ain't worth the powder it'd take to blow his
> brains out."
> 
> Y'all come back now, ya hear? :D

I always liked, "If brains were dynamite, he wouldn't have enough to blow his 
nose."...but that's from Montana.

Ken W7EKB
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