[ARC5] Really oddball radios

[Hubert Miller]

Receiving, with this unusual setup, would have been done with the MN-26 variant, i think ? MN-26Y ? that tune something like  3 -  7 MHz ?  Was in the old G&G catalog, i'm 
pretty sure. 
This reminds me of the by-invitation only, estate sale John Nelson and i went to, in West Seattle, somewhere in late 1970s. There were umpteen wooden crates  and heavy
cardboard boxes stacked in the basement. The visit hours were limited to something like 10:00 - 14:00 with a mandatory time-out for lunch. I found on a couple trips, boxes
of MN-26 control boxes. When the crate markings became uncovered and readable, i saw that the wooden crates contained MN-26's, NIB,  but i had already gotten rid o most
of the control boxes. NIB. About this time, the widow's invitations, with a mandatory visit manager fellow present also,  became less frequent, and then i had to leave to follow
 my job from Bellevue WA to Omaha NE. So God knows what became of all those crates. I suppose they went to the metal smelter, because i never heard any more about them. 
Someone told me though, that in the loft above the garage, they found a bunch of SW-3s. William Royal Zinn, may he be in peace, had worked for Alaska Steamship company,
later in the 1950s, ran his own surplus store in West Seattle. 
-Hue Miller