[Boatanchors] Surplus Conversion Manual" Volume II

[Carl]

I never read one of those books but I put a lot of surplus on the air in the 
50's and early 60's following CQ and QST articles. Pulling plates to 
bandspread an ARC-5 receiver or modifying a transmitter for good CW and no 
TVI, or later as a VFO for SSB was all part of the times.

The thought of a small noisy few going anal over it 50-60 years later was 
unheard of.

I better not show pix of my FET modified BC-312N that is regularly used 
these days with a pretty stock ATC; they might turn purple and have a 
coronary.

Carl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mac" <w7qho at aol.com>
To: "JAMES BRANNIGAN" <jbrannig at optonline.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <jfor at quik.com>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Surplus Conversion Manual" Volume II


> 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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