[ARC5] GF/RU from Gordon White.

[howard holden]

Richard, they are certainly pleasant to look at, but oh so much fun to use! And they garner many more comments in QSO than a YaeComWood.


(Wish I had the time/wherewithal to go for the GF/RU....)


73, Howie WB2AWQ

On 3/22/2019 1:01 PM, kn7sfz wrote:
I have a question for the group for which perhaps Gordon himself has an answer.

I have what appears to be a NOS BC-453-B serial No 69471  (I have the box as well) which has been a shelf queen for well over 35 years.  They are pleasant to look at, don't you agree?

Well, just below the antenna connector there is a clear decal with the red letters MD1.  On the side is a tag that says VRAMA Nov 62.

Any idea what these mean?

Thanks for any help,

Richard kn7sfz


On 3/22/2019 11:28 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
Folks:

Below is an interesting offer from Gordon which he was not able to get to the forums on his own. Please answer him directly on these historically important pieces.

Ken W7EKB
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If someone is serious about wanting to build a GF/RU set, I have a GF-2 transmitter, an RU-5A receiver with a dual coil set for 200-380 kc and 4150-7700 kc, the proper receiver shock mount, all local controls, an RU 5A junction box, GF-2 control box, one PL S-56 six-conductor female plug that fits the junction box and a spare receiver dial.

I also have an RU 2A and RU 6 junction box, GF 2 and RU 3 and RU 15 control boxes, 2 SCR-183 control boxes that appear to be for transmitters and a receiver switch box.

I have the original A.R.C. manuals for the GF-2 and RU-5A units

These are “production samples,” stamped with the yellow M in a circle from the Aircraft Radio Corp “morgue.”

Aside from being slightly dusty they appear to be in excellent condition and have all their tubes.

I have no other plugs, cables or wiring, nor the dynamotor.

If anyone wants, I can list the CBY numbers for all this.

Obviously I rescued these from A.R.C. when everything was sold to
Sperry.

I am not looking to get a fortune for these (all or whatever someone would like to have to build a station) but I’d like to get a realistic price for them. I will of course never recover what I spent in doing the history of this equipment and it was at the time a labor of love. I have been preserving them for now something like thirty or forty years and it is time (I am 85 years old) to move them to other hands, as when I go my heirs will not give a hoot for them.

Anyone seriously interested, let me know.

Gordon Eliot White
gewhite at crosslink.net
PO Box 129
Hardyville, VA 23070
804-776-7947 cell 804 695-4628




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