[ARC5] Interest in "command" sets - where is a new generation?

[don davis]

Good question.

Assumption:  You'll live to be 75 years old, your wife will live to be 82.
She (and your kids) will know nothing about this stuff and will have no
access or knowledge about how / where to get an ARC-5 specialist to evaluate
it.  AND nobody who follows you will be enthused about putting it all up on
ebay.

It occurs to me that a well appointed ARC5 system mounted together
physically as one unit (maybe on a board like I've pix of from Dave) with
everything there and cabled together, labelled,  with speaker, ac power
supply with ac cord and all controls with knobs, clear operating booklet,
etc. is very likely to be passed along when you croak.  To the potential
recipient it will look, act, and set-up like a radio and will be verified by
plugging it in and adding an antenna and voila, it will work.  Calling it a
radio out of a B-24 will make it more desirable.  Calling it an ARC-5 or
command set will get blank stares...   What won't be passed on is a pile of
aluminum boxes in the corner of the garage no matter what the condition or
rarity.  Except the guy next door who recycles aluminum cans.

Good Luck  73 de don ad6pb

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Subject: [ARC5] Interest in "command" sets - where is a new generation?


          The next generation of engineers (or hobbyists)

I am a member of Westlakes Radio Club.  We have few members under 50 years
of age.  Yet 30 years ago the situation was the opposite.  The club founder,
Kieth Howard, was the science master at the local high school, and every
Saturday afternoon the train station near the club was flooded with
teenagers - all going to Westlakes Radio Club.  Today, our club has about
200 members; but nearly every club member joined in the 60s and '70s.