[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[K5MYJ]

Consider that in the 50's and 60's these thing were considered junk. You 
could buy them for about $5 then.

There were two surplus stores on Market Street in San Francisco. They had 
tons of their stuff.

Hams in those days bought them for parts and to modify. No one thought of 
any collector value then.

If they had not been modified/butchered it would have lowered today's 
collector value.

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: <Arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Can yoiu say...


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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