[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

Tue Jun 13 13:49:37 EDT 2017

Other way round: the BC-348 has 910kc IF, the BC-312 has 470kc.

I like the BC-312 although eventually I decided it was just too much
weight to work on sensibly and sold my refurbished one (although I
made a mistake with shipping and ended up selling/shipping for
net $0. Oh well).

73, ian K3IMW

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 10:21 AM, K5MYJ <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:

> In 1958 BC-348s were still in use by the military. Some were available
> through MARS.
>
> But in 1958 I got a BC-312 or BC-342 free from mars with no problem. But
> is was not a really go ham band receiver. It did not have the selectivity
> needed at that time. As I remember they had a 916KC IF.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Peter Gottlieb <kb2vtl at gmail.com>
> *To:* Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net>
> *Cc:* Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 13, 2017 9:56 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] Can yoiu say...
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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