[Milsurplus] Strong Stomach Needed.

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

My thoughts exactly, John!!!  The man started with an already

hacked (some might say butchered) radio that was inoperative

and made something useful of it.  What in hell is wrong with that?

 

I modified various surplus stuff back when I got started in ham radio

as a lad of 15 back in 1953.  I bought an AN/APS-13 for $4.95 just

to get a junkbox started.  I bought and converted to 6VAC filaments

a 1.5-3 MCS "command" receiver to use as an I.F. for a Morrow MB-5

mobile converter.  The IF was not as selective as a BC-453 or even

the BC version of "command" receiver, but it was my station receiver

for over two  years.  I'm not sure that I had a better performing RCVR

until I bought a Hammarlund HQ-145X (first new gear) in 1971, nearly

15 years later!  I still had the 1.5-3 MCS receiver until tornado hit in 1999.

In the stress of trying to decide what to save from the wreckage five days

later, I unfortunately decided to pitch it, a beautiful BC-221 and LM-323

(20-400 MCS twin of BC-221, IIRC) into salvage.  There was simply no room

in a pair of 8x25 storage units for all my "stuff" to say nothing of furniture,

records, photos, and furniture.   All my logs from 1953 through about 1980

also mistakenly ended up in the trash when I wasn't looking.

 

In closing, I will say a pox on those who presume to decide what is

acceptable conduct that is not illegal or immoral on the part of others!

 

73 - Mac, K2GKK/5

Oklahoma City, OK

 
 
> From: jmfranke at cox.net
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:16:25 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Strong Stomach Needed.
> 
> He did have another video (part 1) wherein he discussed the initial state of 
> the ARB, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks3009Aq4pE . The speaker was 
> already installed as was the ac power supply. Many of the front panel mods 
> had been done and the volume control was just hanging on the front panel 
> with loose wires. The connectors were gone. The wiring harness was 
> unlaced. The receiver was dead and he restored it to life again.
> 
> John