[Boatanchors] Surplus Conversion Manual" Volume II

[JAMES BRANNIGAN]

Give the original authors a little slack.
In the 50's and 60's surplus meant radios and cheap parts not 
collectibles.
The availability of ARC-5's and SCR-522's put lots of fellows on the 
air, and trying to figure how to do it was a good lesson in electronics.

Jim


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, J. Forster wrote:

> Absolutely right on.
>
> -John
>
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>
> Meir wrote:
>
>> IMHO the Surplus Manuals are completely useless, as there is no
>> information in them as to the operation and  maintenance of the
>> equipment and accessories for it. I also hate the stupid remarks in 
>> it
>> about the suitability of the equipment for ham operation. Of course,
>> without operating it properly, according to the original military
>> manual, it may be a nuisance on the air. Also, the authors never
>> attampted to gather all the components of the system (power supplies,
>> connectors,etc) and went slam bang to hack the equipment into junk.
>> I refer to the aforesaid manual in case I need to restore a piece of
>> equipment which was rendered mainly useless by a previous owner who
>> took the advice of the manual, to see what modifications were made, 
>> so
>> I can undo them.[snip]
>