[Boatanchors] Need help identifying a boatanchor

[Mahlon Haunschild]

True enough, Robert.  I posted the Surplus Radio Conversion Manual cite
primarily so that the original asker would be aware of an additional
information resource, not necessarily as a recommendation.

Most of SRCM vol. 2 is devoted to converting ARC-5 equipment to other 
purposes (10 meters, VFH), and not to putting them on the air in their 
as-built form.  Such activity would be considered butchery by most 
today, but back then with freght-car-loads of these things just sitting 
around (and what little commercial gear available was still quite 
expensive, where such production had survived the war) it wasn't a big 
deal to do so.  SCRM vol. 2 has very little information on putting the 
ARC-5 series to use in its as-built form, and I believe that this is 
because the authors assumed that anyone who wanted to do this would have 
no trouble doing so on their own.

Sometimes the book got it wrong:  The book recommends essentially 
scrapping BC-375s for various reasons, probably traceable to the 
inability of the hams of the day to build a power supply with 
good-enough regulation using the components of the day for the BC-375's 
MOPA design.  By contrast, the book correctly recommends doing nothing 
to the ART-13 other than a slight modification to the mic amplifier.

I didn't look in the GO-9 material in any great detail, but did notice 
that it included a schematic for a modulator.

Keep in mind that the book was published in 1948, and the hobby's growth 
and technical development had been at a standstill since 1941.

Has anyone bothered to scan the SCRMs into .pdf files, I wonder?

OK, I'm rambling now.  Time to take the dogs for a walk.

regards,

Mahlon - K4OQ
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> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:36:43 EST
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> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Need help identifying a boatanchor
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> Historically true as far as it goes.  Although the fact of the matter is that 
> in most cases the MF/HF and some of the VHF gear was plug-n-play and would 
> have worked FB without any modifications.  And in general worked better than 
> after the butchery.  Which isn't to be construed as meaning that I didn't wear 
> out my share of screwdrivers in the CCW direction.  Just that I wouldn't do it 
> today.
> 
> What probably prompted Meir's comment was an earlier post mentioning that 
> there was a conversion article on the GO-9 in one of the conversion handbooks.  
> No one can truthfully argue that today you can go to Radio Row and buy a barrel 
> full of NOSB GO-9's for $2.95 or $2995.
> 
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