[ARC5] Chirpless ARC5?

[kgordon2006 at frontier.com]

On 27 Jun 2015 at 2:50, J Mcvey via ARC5 wrote:

> I finally got the transmitters put together and I was able to do a
> preliminary test. Much to my surprise, there was no whoop or chirp on
> the first try!It's a home brew power suppy using the original "hot
> keying"  configuration  used in the original design and recommended by
> Dave Stinson.The D401 dynamotor only puts out 440V, so the screen is
> around 220V.All of the original select system relays were converted to
> 12v. The under chassis 28 volt relay was replaced with a 14 volt ARC
> relay I salvaged from an ARC 12. The antenna select relay coils were
> put in parallel to work on 12v.So, they are A/B rack selectable as
> designed. One might think that the oscillator would take a few
> milliseconds to settle, but it has a rock solid tone in the receiver.
> The old time Hams would had been better off NOT to have modified an
> apparently great ( albeit strange) design.This was part of my
> experiment, to test the ORIGINAL circuit functionality and it passed
> with flying colors!!! 

Why am I NOT, repeat: NOT, surprised....? :-)
Ken W7EKB