[ARC5] Receiver Bench Test Adapter

[Michael Hanz]

I bought a couple of the test equipment thingies from Fair Radio years 
ago, IIRC, but after one use with an older, somewhat beat up 
transmitter, I bequeathed them to someone for the same reason that 
several have commented on here - those doggone ears scratch the paint or 
aluminum, even with judicious bending.  I half-way considered lining the 
offending edges with teflon or something similar, but that seemed a 
waste of valuable time.

Now...I'll have to admit that I never met a hacked command set rack I 
didn't like, if it was cheap enough, if only for hardware bits.  I 
finally looked through my pile-o-junk racks from hamfests and found 
three pieces (two transmitter and one receiver) that would do the job of 
test racks for the whole ARA/ATA, SCR-274N, and AN/ARC-5 series.  
Attached is a photo of the one for the AN/ARC-5 transmitter.  The "awk" 
moment occurred later - after I noticed (because of the two unpainted 
outer sides), that this had been the center section hack-sawed out of an 
MT-73/ARC-5 _triple_ transmitter rack!  Talk about "wish he hadn't done 
that..."

The original racks aren't the easiest to keep from scratching sets 
either, but at least the tx/rx baseplate clearance keeps the scratches 
to a  minimum, and the two tabs on the upper rear part of the rack can 
be removed to solve that piece of the problem.

-Mike  KC4TOS

On 7/23/2019 8:19 PM, Clare Owens wrote:
> Probably in that back aisle where my son, granddaughter and I  found 
> the hoard of BC-450As the day before we went to Xenia this year.  
> Interestingly, that's also the aisle where our Radiation Pagers would 
> not stop alarming...?  Could not ID the source(s) of the radiation - 
> no doubt there are multiple Radium paint sources back there.  Ah, the 
> Good Old Days...
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:40 PM J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
> <mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Youcan get a used raw rack connector from Fair radio, but you have
>     call and ask for Phil. He has some in the back room somewhere.
>


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