[Milsurplus] ARB

[Hue Miller]

If you didn't know it was formerly an ARB, you'd no doubt regard it as a 
reasonable example
of the radio art by some obscure 1940s manufacturer. Someone put a lot of 
work into this
with a good degree of skill. The only improvements I can see from the user 
standpoint is
doing away separately located controls, adding internal AC power, and 
possibly better
bandspread, with definitely easier to use tuning controls. There was no 
"need" however
here; it's more like human creativity at work. I think this is a perfectly 
valid "conversion"
and only decreases the ARB count by one.
BTW, are the "conversions" by the marine radio suppliers, I mean the 
remanufactured
ARBs, BC-375s, and such, or the Fair Radio Q-535, "perversions" ?
Also BTW, the Navy apparently felt it satisfied the role well, since they 
ordered something like
14,000 of them. ( And they're no where near extinct now, either. )
I do wonder why the builder didn't just buy a BC-348. I suppose it was the 
exercise
in craftsmanship aspect, homebrewing something one could be proud of.
-Hue Miller