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

[KG4KGL]

The QST search engine is not that broken. I found it first try, just using the author's last name. 

Robert
KG4KGL


> On Jan 2, 2015, at 10:43, Mike Hanz <aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'd forgotten how interesting the article is.
> 
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
>> Sent: Jan 2, 2015 2:30 PM
>> To: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>, arc5 at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Seeking Information: Article on the original ARC commercial Type D receiver
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
>> Subject: [ARC5] Seeking Information: Article on the original ARC 
>> commercial Type D receiver
>> 
>> 
>>> Hello all.
>>> 
>>> Several years ago there was circulating from some radio site, 
>>> IIRC, an article about the original battery-powered A.R.C. Type 
>>> D aircraft receiver.  I believe it appeared in print sometime 
>>> between 1929 and 1931.
>> 
>> It's here somewhere, Mike.  I'm hunting it.
>> It was indeed from QST.
>> 
>> Dave S.
> 
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