[ARC5] SCR-522 Playing.

[Christopher Bowne]

These pics are motivating me to get a complete 522 and associated dynamotor supply that have been shelf queens for many years here up and running.   Back in my novice days at age 14 in 1967 as WN2ZPS I had BC-624 receiver and BC-625 transmitter chassis that came as freebies along with the used DX-40 I bought to get on the air on HF CE with.  Never did get the receiver working but I built up a little B plus and bias supply, and used a slot car 12 volt DC power pack for the filaments and relays. I didn’t have the auto tune assemblies and just manually tweaked the 4 tuning controls, made about 8 watts of AM.  Made a 5 element beam with a 2x4 boom that sat on the collar ties of the unfinished attic where I had may shack, I had a stepladder to move it around  to various beam headings to other novices and techs on 2 meters in Rockland and Bergen counties. 

Once worked down to Ft. Monmouth which was about a 75 mile path.  For receiving I had a borrowed Ameco converter into my EH Scott SLRM  at 14-18 MHz.

Used to be quite a number of us school bus riders on 2M in the late afternoons, Fortunately, I didn’t become trapped into spending too much time on 2M AM and got my code speed up to go for my general after about 8 months as a Novice.

Chris AJ1G Stonington CT

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> On Apr 21, 2025, at 12:51, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
>  And here's the photo link I flubbed:
> 
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/YhHe9esfEH5X7d8cA
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