[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[Peter Gottlieb]

It's not necessarily correct as different jobs had wildly different (reverse indexed) salaries back then. 


Peter

> On Jun 13, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net> wrote:
> 
> It is interesting to note that $79 in 1950 escalates to $801.55 in 2017 using inflation escalation factors.
> 
> Phillip W4RTX 
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>> On Jun 13, 2017, at 12:38 PM, J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>> 
>> The thing is, the command set transmitters worked fine in their original state.
>> So the question is WHY did they go so crazy on the thing.
>> 
>> I suspect it was a lack of information and those "converting surplus" books. 
>> Did people know that they were designed for low Z capacitive loads back in the day? 
>> Maybe they got frustrated trying to load into their 300 or 600 ohm ladder line, so they started hacking it up without really knowing what they were doing.
>> However this guy went above and beyond the point of absurdity. 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, June 13, 2017 11:23 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 Jun 2017 at 7:22, DSP3 wrote:
>> 
>> > have to agree with Robert, in part.  If one does a value of money 
>> > comparison, the $79 BC-348 in 1950 could cost over $500 dollars in 
>> > today's environment.  Exceptions, of course... the new 50-cent J-38 
>> > would be about $10 today.  I wish.....  So, things weren't as cheap as 
>> > they appear.
>> 
>> Absolutely correct. When we "correct for inflation", the cost of everything works out to be far 
>> above what a 13 year old kid could afford.
>> 
>> I know I sure couldn't.
>> 
>> Thinking back on it, it amazes me that we did so much with what we had.
>> 
>> Like my first "good" receiver was a Hallicrafters S-41G which a sub-contractor for my 
>> step-father's construction company found abandoned in the basement of the home he moved 
>> into.
>> 
>> I worked the world with that thing,(after fixing it) and a DX-35 I bought after working all one 
>> summer as a water-boy on one of my step-father's jobs.
>> 
>> I have an S-41G now and cannot understand how I did it. The thing is unstable, insensitive, 
>> uncalibrated (the entire 20 meter band covers something like 1/8" on the dial) and essentially 
>> a real piece of junk.
>> 
>> I would have been in ham heaven if I had had a BC-454 or BC-455.
>> 
>> Finally, my Mother took pity on me and managed to buy a very lightly modified (added power 
>> supply) BC-348 very cheaply from one of my Elmers to which he had added a BC-946B 
>> "Q-5er". Then I really WAS in ham heaven.
>> 
>> I eventually traded that back to my Elmer for a brand-new RAL-7 because I wanted to be able 
>> to work 15 meters. I came to love that receiver.
>> 
>> I have at least 50 "ARC-5" receivers now, all of which have been "hacked" mostly to ribbons. 
>> Yet every one of those I have "attacked" can be made to work at least as well as they 
>> originally did, although none are, in my opinion, restorable to original condition.
>> 
>> The only transmitters I have, with one exception, have also been hacked to ribbons and I 
>> cannot see how even one ever was used on the air.
>> 
>> The single exception is one of those ARC-5 transmitters which cover 2.1 - 3.0 MHz. I have no 
>> idea where I got it. That one hasn't been touched, and it won't be touched by me.
>> 
>> Ken W7EKB
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