[ARC5] A discussion on AGC.

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 10 May 2017 at 2:39, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> Both variants of the AN/ARC-5's take the AGC voltage off of the plate of the 12SF7,

I am having a bit of difficulty with this, which is why I have not replied before now. The AGC 
diode receives its signal from the last IF in both cases, this is true, but the BFO is injected in 
the same tube in which the AGC diode resides when the 12SR7 is used for AGC, but there 
are several tuned circuits between the BFO and the AGC when the 12SF7's diode is used for 
AGC.

I still maintain that the reason this was done is that the COMM receivers were more likely to 
be used for CW (as seldom as that was used) than the NAV receivers.

Perhaps we need to take a working example of each receiver and measure the effect of the 
BFO on the AGC. Does the AGC voltage rise more in the one case than in the other when 
the BFO is turned on?

In both cases, the AGC is never turned OFF.

> The difference is that the NAV receivers use the rectifier diode in the 12SR7 and the 
> COMM receivers use the one in the 12SF7.  Why the difference, no one alive today 
> knows.    

See above. ;-)

Ken W7EKB

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