[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] Oh my....and I thought I had seen every mod known...

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

In all likelihood, the original owner used what was then 
a CHEAP B.C. band receiver to use as an I.F. for a ham 
band converter such as those made by Gonset, Morrow, 
and others.  From his point of view, a radio that MIGHT have cost him 
$5 made far more sense than screwing with the costly 
factory installed B.C. radio.  While I didn't do this with 
an ARC-5 type B.C. receiver, I did convert the 1.5-3.0 
MC/s receiver to use with a Morrow 5BR-1 converter to 
use as my main station receiver.  This would have been 
somewhere around 1955-1956.  I still had the unit until 
a tornado destroyed our house in May of 1999.  I had no 
room to retain all the stuff I had accumulated in 46 years 
of hamming, and regretfully, that went to landfill as well 
as a perfect BC-221 and TS-323(?) 20-400 MHz counterpart. 
 
Tough decisions made under severe stress at the time that 
I wish I could have back, but that is how it goes some times. 
 
Don't berate somebody for making a decision to modify what 
seemed at the time to be an unlimited supply of stuff that 
hardly anybody really wanted at the time. 
 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 
Oklahoma City, OK  
 
* In my many years, I have come to the conclusion that one useless *  
* man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is Congress. *  
 
* -- John Adams (1735- 1826) *  
 
    From: dxguy at earthlink.net  To: AAF-Radio-1 at aafradio.org; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; arc5 at mailman.qth.net  Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:57:28 -0800  CC:   Subject: [ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] Oh my....and I thought I had seen every mod known...    It's a 6 volt converter to be mounted under the dash of a '50s car.   Note the car ant jacks: in and out....    73 de don ad6pb    
 
----- Original Message -----  From: "Mike Hanz" AAF-Radio-1 at aafradio.org To: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "ARC-5"   arc5 at mailman.qth.net  Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:20 PM  Subject: [Milsurplus] Oh my....and I thought I had seen every mod   known...      (http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-WWII-Army-AN-ARC-5-Tube-Radio-Receiver-BC-946-B_W0QQitemZ300272676940)   Also note clever use of chopped up original shock mount rails as   mounting brackets... :-) 
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