[Boatanchors] Surplus Conversion Manual" Volume II

mac w7qho at aol.com
Fri Nov 27 15:41:42 EST 2009


I'll second that.

Dennis D. W7QHO
Glendale, CA



On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:53 AM, JAMES BRANNIGAN wrote:

> 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
>>
>> ==================
>>
>> 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]
>>
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