[ARC5] Really tricked out BC-453-B on eBay

[Robert Nickels]

Hi Dave, long time, no hamfests eh?    I see the seller has hundreds of 
other electronic items up for sale or auction. Wherever it came from, 
there was/is a ton of it.  Make that "many tons"...check the sold 
listings to see what I mean.

This BC-453 seems to have the usual modifications, control panel and AC  
power supply added.    I'd bet the external box is a converter for one 
or more HF bands.   There were any number of these but Don Stoner 
published two articles, one called the "Novice Q5er": 
http://www.w7ekb.com/glowbugs/rx/NoviceQ5er/NoviceQ5er.pdf  and the 
other was the "SSB Q5er" which added a product detector. Both took 
advantage of the BC-453's excellent narrow passband IF and stable local 
oscillator.     Adding a decent converter in front of it and other 
features produced a good triple-conversion receiver for little money.

At any rate someone hit the buy it now, as it was sold today. Offering 
most anything in the way of vintage radio stuff with free shipping is 
bound to get some attention these days.

73,  Bob W9RAN