[Boatanchors] ARC-4

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hey what a sweet unit to get to experiment with! Wow! Enjoy!

DBF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Pewitt" <n9zsv at cei.net>
To: <eldim at att.net>; "Ian" <ianwebb5 at comcast.net>; 
<Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] ARC-4


> Glen, which RBS unit were you stationed in?  I was at Det. 13, 11th RBS at 
> Wilder City, Idaho.  I too was in the T-1 van until it was replaced by the 
> computerized T-11 van circa 1966.
> 73  Gary
>
>
>
> At 09:59 PM 1/23/2006, eldim at att.net wrote:
>
>>Hello Ian, and Fellow BA'ers,
>>I remember our airborne counterpart was the autotuned UHF AM ARC-3 
>>Transceiver.  I worked on this unit which  was located in a rear air 
>>conditioned cabinet  of the AN/GPQ-T1A ECM Van,  along with the UHF 
>>AN/ARC-27  and the HF Collins 18S-4 Transceivers.  The T1A was a manned 
>>ECM van that we had in SAC RBS for training the SAC Bomber ECM crews.  I 
>>made my first 2 Meter contact using the ground counterpart combination 
>>BC-640 Transmitter and the BC-639A Receiver.  Those were the good ole 
>>days.
>>73,
>>Glen Galati, KA7BOJ
>>eldim at att.net
>>
>>-------------- Original message from "Ian" 
>><ianwebb5 at comcast.net>: --------------
>>
>>
>> > All the discussion of surplus VHF gear got me thinking about the ARC-4
>> that
>> > I converted and used on 2 meter AM in the mid 1950s. It sure was
>> > insensitive without a preamp I built for it but I made a lot of 100 
>> > mile +
>> > contacts with it along the California coastal area north of Los 
>> > Angeles.
>> > (Thank goodness for the duct over mostly ocean of 150 - 200 miles 
>> > between
>> > Santa Barbara and San Diego and once in a while into Mexico!)
>> >
>> > It had an 832 in the final. I remember I had to make the receiver 
>> > tunable
>> > and it actually seemed "stable" but remember those were the days of 
>> > wide
>> > bandwidth and little 2 meter activity and "the standard" for the run of
>> the
>> > mill amateur was the Gonset Communicator.
>> >
>> > Did anybody else have experiences with this? I see some mentions of it
>> > doing a Google search and it looks as though perhaps one has appeared 
>> > on
>> > "that place" for auction in the past.
>> >
>> > Are there any of them still around. It would be fun to see one again if
>> > they ever appear for sale at a reasonable price. (I think I pad $15 for 
>> > it
>> > when I bought it unconverted.) In retrospect I guess I shouldn't have
>> > thrown it out when I moved on to a real 2 meter transceiver several 
>> > years
>> > after. I remember that I had the power supply I built for it for quite 
>> > a
>> > few years until I had to clean house to get space and foolishly tossed
>> that
>> > also.
>> >
>> > Ian, K6SDE
>> >
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> Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV   n9zsv at cei.net  479 675 4376
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