[ARC5] Can yoiu say...

[Robert Eleazer]

The only Command Set transmitter I have converted was a 5.3 to 7 MHZ ATA model I got from Fair Radio.  Like Ken, I was not interested the sets from the Amateur Radio standpoint but rather the historical  aspect. And I did not have my license yet, in any case.

I used the 1965 ARRL Handbook for information to get the transmitter running.  Those instructions called for minimal modification of the transmitter.  I only put an octal plug from a broken tube on the back to apply power, removed the antenna relay, and added a small phone socket on the front for a CW key.  I brought the transmitter up with about a 250VDC supply, stuck a piece of wire in the antenna connector and tried transmitting to a GE multiband receiver on the other side of the house.  At the time I did not know about BFOs and was perplexed that I could not get a signal.  But eventually I found a signal to beat against.  No doubt I was not getting out past a mile or so but I did not care, since there was no one to talk to anyway. 

I delighted in the operation of the Magic Eye tube and especially the fact it was a real WWII set, which was the real reason I got into radio in the first place - so I did not hack it up.

Wayne
WB5WSV 

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