[GreenKeys] Signal Corps Equipment

[David Christ]

Command sets.  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ARC-5>

Don't know how common they are now but were all over after WWII.  Many are probably still hiding in the basements of older hams.  Very popular as the basis for many a ham project.  One popular use was as a VFO.

We would love to have you bring them to the meeting.
The December meeting of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club will be held on Wednesday, December 11th at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency, 200 Holiday Road in Coralville. 


for details see <http://icarc.org/> 

David Christ  K0LUM
Vice President ICARC
Iowa City, IA


On Dec 1, 2013, at 8:35 PM, Jones, Douglas W wrote:

> While helping my father de-junk his basement, I came across
> two old pieces of Signal Corps equipment.  See photo:
> 
> -- http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/CHJonesRadios.jpg
> 
> A pencil notation on the aluminium side of one of these says
> "C.H.Jones" -- my grandfather's name.  I found this only
> after I got them home from my trip to my father's house.
> 
> Other pencil notations identify the tubes inside, suggesting
> that my grandfather put some effort into maintaining or reverse
> engineering these.  I suspect my father collected them while
> he was going through his father's cluttered basement (and it
> was very cluttered!).
> 
> Anyway, here are dimensions and what the nameplates
> on the two boxes say:
> 
> The smaller (and lighter) box -- 4 3/4" wide by 5 1/2"
> high by 10 1/2" deep:
> 
> SIGNAL CORPS        US ARMY
>  RADIO RECEIVER BC-453-B
>  SERIAL NO        8030
>    ORDER NO 595-WF-43
>         MADE BY
>    COLONIAL RADIO CORP
>        BUFFALO NY
> 
> The larger (and heavier) box -- 5" wide by 7 1/4" high
> by 12" deep:
> 
> SIGNAL CORPS        US ARMY
> RADIO TRANSMITTER  BC-458-A
>  SERIAL NO        115325
>         MADE BY
>    WESTERN  ELECTRIC
>       NEW YORK NY
> 
> I think the best disposition of these old radios is as
> museum pieces, but I'm including my father in this
> E-mail just in case my discovery of his father's name
> on the radios raises any questions.
> 
>           Doug Jones
>           jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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