[Milsurplus] 12V Dynomotor

jcoward5452 at aol.com jcoward5452 at aol.com
Sun Jul 19 17:53:32 EDT 2009


Very interesting and thanks Richard.Glad you had the opertunity to use 
the gear!
 Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich MC Clung <sgm460122 at yahoo.com>
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 2:43 pm
Subject: [Milsurplus] 12V Dynomotor



I was stationed in Germany 1966-69 and while there I collected several 
German
nomenclatured ARC-5 pieces. I picked up a XMTR, RCVR and MD units that 
had new
dial scales made from brass and calibrated to cover the full 160M band. 
There
was a dual XMTR mount with a RCVR mount modified to fit in one side of 
the XMTR
mount. They were painted the German olive green color similar to the 
one on
e-bay and were 12VDC.  I picked it up at a German neighborhood hock 
shop for 20
Marks which was $5.00 at that time.  I took it into my shop at the 
Kaserne we
were stationed and checked it over before aplying power to it.  The 
RCVR worked
very well and I could RCV  BCB stations on the top of the BCB. The XMTR 
worked
ok but I needed to replace the finals. I stayed late one night after I 
got it
all checked out and hooked it up to the inverted-L antenna we had 
coming into
our shop. I worked several stations and took it home the next day and 
used it
for 1 year on 160
  untill I was transferred back to the States and I gave it to a local 
German Ham
who I was friends with.  I have several 
German radios that I now wish I 
had
kept.  All from German hock shops for very little cost.  Those days are 
gone
forever.  Anyway, I discovered that after the War the Germans were 
using a lot
of US radios and most were coverted to operate on 12VDC if they didn't 
and
eventually began to use 24VDC like the reat of the military units from 
the US,
UK and France. yda,yda,yda,ya........
 
So to give the short version 12VDC was a standard for pot-War German 
Military
Communications equipment. And they used the ARC-5 type equipment for 
ground
comms as well as aviation.
 
RICH  EX-DL4MC
WA6KNW
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