[ARC5] Receiver Filter Adaptor- From Pillar, Back to Post

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 18 Feb 2016 at 19:46, Mike Everette via ARC5 wrote:

> I've been following this thread with interest; but sort of wondering why anyone
> would make a Command receiver into something it ain't.  Unless you bandspread
> the receiver, the tuning rate is very fast for use with high selectivity crystal
> filters.

Yup. Not good.
 
> Look on the ARRL QST Archive and check out an article called "An ARC-5 Triple
> Superhet" from the late 1950s.  This scheme works very, very well and the low
> frequency receiver can be used as a passband-tuning device.

I have two of those, given to me in an estate many years ago.

Ken W7EKB