[Milsurplus] Identity of ARC-5 (?) item on eBay

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Thanks, Mike, for an actual answer to my question.

As for the eBay speed with a slow dial-up connection,
I use dial-up on the weekends when I am at my boat
in a marina.  I still stay connected to eBay any time
I am on an Internet connection, whether it is dial-up
or DSL.  I also connect in the "stay connected until
log off" mode.  Nothing going on after I connect unless
I actually go to eBay to look at an item I see referenced.

I am unable to "join the two lines" without forwarding
the original message back to myself.  Even that doesn't
work when the link is a really large one.

73  ---  Mac, K2GKK/5



----Original Message Follows----

From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: "D C *Mac* Macdonald" <k2gkk at hotmail.com>
CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Identity of ARC-5 (?) item on eBay
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:15:32 -0500

 >I don't even try to type out the whole URL.
 >It usually folds over/truncates and is unusable
 >anyway.   Just go to eBay and type in the
 >10-digit number in the search block.

Hi Mac,

For my application, I can usually just click on the URL in the email and get
right to the item.  Sometimes a mailer's word-wrap feature will put part of
the URL on the next line, but it's pretty simple to join the two lines and
click.

I have an old slow computer on a dial-up connection.  Ebay now has a
tremendous amount of overhead on each page.  Anything that saves me from
having to go through even one ebay page before getting to the target page
really helps me.  Others may be a similar position.

In any event, the item that you cited is a rack for a 1950s and 1960s era
A.R.C.-made commercial VOR.  I forget the commercial model numbers, but is
not Type 12.  It was also used on the military AN/ARN-30-series VORs.  If
military, then the rack with shock mount would be a MT-1174 and
MT-1175/ARN-30A.  The left slot holds the receiver (like a R-1021/ARN-30D)
and the right slot holds the signal converter (like a CV-265A/ARN-30A) that
processes the receiver output for display on the VOR course indicator.

Mike / KK5F