[ARC5] BC 453 request

[CARL HUETHER]

Good point Bob.

The lack of most any technical ability by the current hordes polluting the bands is hastening the slide to the pits....and the ARRL is campaigning hard for more.

Im certainly not as active and one reason is my favorite sport was DX chasing on CW and SSB.

Now that DXCC is a laugh, remotes are everywhere, fraud is rampant; Ive simply stopped chasing it even tho I was in the top echelons including 160.  I havent succumbed to the make believe FT8 version of radio either.

Most of my activity now is on AM with various vintage rigs at the 100-140W barefoot level or with various 20-40W TX driving a 1200W linear, vintage 60-80's tube type of course. Talking to real people that sound real and not the restricted bandwidth, over processed crap and IMD generators on SSB, has been a pleasure.

CW is mostly limited to 5W using 1930's era receivers and TX circuits, a couple of slightly modified BC-453's help at times and they werent virgins when I bought them ~30 years ago. They were also used in the 50's to early 60's along with a modified bandspreaded BC-454 & 455 before I could afford a real radio, a second hand HQ-129X.

So to outsiders Im an eccentric old goat in more than just the ARC-5 category.

Carl


On October 31, 2019 at 2:01 AM Bob Macklin <macklinbob at gmail.com> wrote:


>     I'm finding HAM RADIO in general less interesting every year.
>      
>     It's nothing like it was 50 years ago.
>      
>     The only time I hear serious activity is on contest days.
>      
>     Bob Macklin
>     K5MYJ
>     Seattle, Wa.
>     "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> 
>         > >         ----- Original Message -----
> >         From: CARL HUETHER mailto:k1uhy at comcast.net
> >         To: Mike Morrow mailto:kk5f at arrl.net ; Mike Morrow mailto:kk5f at earthlink.net ; ARC5 at mailman.qth.net mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> >         Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:05 PM
> >         Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC 453 request
> > 
> >         While your decades of disdain for ham use of those throw away radios 60 years ago is legendary there were others that used them and modifying was the well accepted subject of many popular magazines and books.
> > 
> >         Fast forward to now where old grouches havent enough grey matter remaining to focus that far back. Today collectors of those old radios are considered odd ball eccentrics.
> > 
> >         Carl
> >         USN/USNR 1959-87
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >             > > > On October 30, 2019 at 5:21 PM Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > >             To some ham hobbyists hackers 60 years ago, but not to those for whom the set's use in military service is THE important characteristic.
> > > 
> > >             If the request comes from someone attempting to assemble a historically realistic three-receiver rack, he's not likely to care about its use as a "Q-fiver".
> > > 
> > >             If the cover for the loop select switch is needed, then a small detail like what model had such a thing would seem to matter, no?
> > > 
> > >             Mike / KK5F
> > > 
> > >                 > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > >                 From: Bob via ARC5
> > > >                 Sent: Oct 30, 2019 1:24 PM
> > > >                 To: kk5f at arrl.net, martyn.seay at gmail.com, ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
> > > >                 Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC 453 request
> > > > 
> > > >                 They are all Q5ers
> > > > 
> > > >                 -----Original Message-----
> > > >                 From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> > > >                 To: Martyn Google <martyn.seay at gmail.com>; ARC5 <ARC5 at mailman.qth.net>
> > > >                 Sent: Wed, Oct 30, 2019 9:37 am
> > > >                 Subject: Re: [ARC5] BC 453 request
> > > > 
> > > >                 > I’m hoping to restore a BC453 navigation receiver to complete a 3 rx rack. It’s the one with the 2 loop antenna terminals on the front. It is missing the little black box that covers the loop switch, and the switch knob. Will appreciate any help! Best 73 to all.
> > > >                 >Martyn ZL3CK (New Zealand)
> > > > 
> > > >                 Martin, there are no BC-453-* beacon band receivers with loop terminals and switch.  Those were only on the very rare RAV CBY-46002 and the common R-23*/ARC-5 and the less common R-148/ARC-5X.  You almost certainly have an R-23*.
> > > > 
> > > >                 Good luck!
> > > > 
> > > >                 Mike / KK5F
> > > > 
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