[ARC5] Hacked ARR-7 question

[Hubert Miller]

That was the first and most common 'conversion', to remove the snout, and 
I never understood that. I thought it looked much cooler with the snout than some 
useless knob there. Many years ago, I lusted for an ARR-7, even practiced fortitude
and passed up a nice one at the Rickreall hamfest for $125. Now when I read the old
R. E. Goodheart ads about their added SSB product detector, I wonder: no fine tuning,
how's that work out on, say, 14 MHz ? 
The only ARR-7 I would maybe want today would be the ARR-7AX, with the miniature
tubes.