[ARC5] Creative ARC-5 Set-Up

[Joe Connor via ARC5]

Ken:
     If memory serves me right (which it does less and less these days), Electronics Illustrated had a big article in the '60s about converting car radios in this manner. The thesis of the article was what you said: car radios would easily outperform an AA5.
                     Joe Connor 


     On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 4:06 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
   
 

 On 15 Apr 2015 at 19:53, Joe Connor via ARC5 wrote:

> I'm not sure what to think about this, other than that I admire the
> creativity.https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/ele/4977706497.html
> 
>         Joe Connor

BTW, years ago, I used to do pretty much the same thing with car radios. 

Since they all have an RF amp stage, decent selectivity, and decent audio 
stages, I was able to sell a few of them to local BC band listeners.

They beat the AA-5 all hollow for performance.

I would build a very-well-filtered 12.6 V or 6.3 VDC power supply, build a 
"pretty" cabinet with a good speaker in it, and mount the radio into the 
front-panel. I also included an antenna, usually one of those "loop" jobs, 
tuned for the BC band with an added capacitor, or a simple wire antenna 
depending on what the buyer wanted.

I got the radios at one of the local junkyards for very little money.

In fact, it was the owner of that junkyard who first asked me to make him 
such a radio, and from that I got the idea.

Ken W7EKB
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