[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Back then if you wanted to make money you got a job or developed and sold a product.


Today job  security, such as loyalty, benefits and a pension, are scarce so lot of people are looking to make money "flipping" products whether it be real estate of a radio.


How times change.


Mike N2MS


> 
>     On June 13, 2017 at 1:09 PM K5MYJ <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     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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