[ARC5] Seeking Information: Article on the original ARC commercial Type D receiver

Mike Hanz aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org
Fri Jan 2 20:01:46 EST 2015


Frequently such articles in the less rigorous magazines have references 
from which the material is drawn.  Are there any such for this subject?

On 1/2/2015 6:55 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Jack Antonio found it in the QST archive on the ARRL members'
> site.  It's QST, October, 1930, and is titled "A Multi-Range
> Receiver With Four Tuned Circuits". It describes the A.R.C.-
> designed Stromberg-Carlson Model D in a five-page article.
> To find it, one must put some of the title words (like "tuned
> circuits") in the keyword search box for the archive.  The search
> engine is horrifically bad...like 1975 computer technology!
> Even though "Aircraft Radio Corporation" appears in the text,
> the search engine does not search outside the title...a search
> for that phrase fails.  The article was written by Robert S.
> Kruse, but if you type "Kruse" into the Author search box, the
> search will fail.  One needs "Kruse, Robert S." in the box.
> Very very poor.
>
> Plus...the URL can not be used to cite the article to others.
> So, ARRL membership is needed to reach the archive.



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