[ARC5] The ARC 5 repackaged - heresy or hot rod tinkering?

[Phillip Carpenter]

Mike,

I am designing a BC-453 repackaged receiver with front end converter to be rack mounted and am substituting all miniature tube equivalents for the octal tubes. I have a junker receiver with many missing components but it does have the tuning capacitor, IFs, BFO, etc. I purchased a nice rack mount cabinet with built in speaker from Surplus Sales of Nebraska that it will be constructed into.

This project is temporarily on hold at the moment while I complete restoration of one of my lightly modified BC-453 receivers, it's power supply, and the homebrew front end converter for it.

I will keep the forum posted once I start building the ARC-5 repackaged project. Ken Gordon recommended that I publish the project once completed in Electric Radio Magazine, which I will.

Phil (W4RTX)

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 12:28 AM, mike Kana <aa9il at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> Has anyone done the 'arc 5 repackaged' design from the Command Sets book?
> I have looked at the article and thought about it for a bit but decide not to as
> Im focusing more on getting the lightly modded sets I have up and running
> and leave as stock as possible.  I realize that article came from a time
> when the receiver was more widely available and an item for experimentation.
> I guess I would try this as an experiment for a basket case set that was already
> beyond restoration but is this gilding the lily?  
> 
> Thx 73
> Mike 
> 
> AA9IL
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