[Milsurplus] ARC-2 Owners?
Meir WF2U
wf2u at ws19ops.com
Sun Nov 6 22:46:51 EST 2011
Stu,
I'm an RT-91/ARC-2 owner/user. My unit also has the Navy modification with
the fuses on the front panel. The serial number is 665.
Except for a few spots on the case where the paint is worn off and the
undercoating shows, the transceiver is mint, with the original dynamotor.
The only ham mod (I got it this way) is that instead of the original antenna
push terminal and porcelain or ceramic insulator, a previous owner put a UHF
connector mounted on an aluminum plate using the same holes as the original
ceramic insulator. I have a spare antenna terminal and insulator which I
have to install to bring back the ARC-2 to completely original condition.
I managed to find the power connector for it, but no luck so far with the
shock mount plate yet.
I use it once in a while, but in order to be able to dig out weaker CW
signals from the barn-door wide IF bandwidth (I can do only that much
filtering with my biological filter unit between my ears...) I connect an
active filter (SCAF-1 from kit or the old Autek) between the audio output
and the headset. The filter sometimes makes the difference between losing
the signal in the cacophony coming through the proverbial barn door and a
copyable signal!
I wouldn't bother doing that conversion/modification mentioned below.
When I operate classic military equipment, I like it as it was issued, and
my enjoyment is to be able to use it pretty successfully on the ham bands
this way.
Good luck with yours and hope you find a dynamotor to restore it to
original.
Keep us posted!
73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of w7fe
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:15 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] ARC-2 Owners?
I have recently acquired a very nice RT-91/ARC-2 Collins transceiver (yes,
likely the very first Collins-produced transceiver, c. 1945 -- uses a 70E-1
PTO common to both TX and RX circuitry, 2-9 MC, 8-channel Autotune,
CW/MCW/AM, pr. of 1625's modulated by pr.of 1625's) and would like to hear
from other owners..
I know that manuals are available from at least three sources on line, and I
do have the W4WKM conversion article from October 1963 73 magazine. I'd sure
like to find a copy of the booklet which is referred to in that article
(contains schematics and four or five very useful-sounding mods, at least
two of which look like they are already installed in my unit) as well
sources of any other available knowledge on this beauty and/or suggestions
of other active groups/lists to visit with this request?
Again, I'd really enjoy an opportunity to compare notes with others who are
familiar with and perhaps still enjoying this rig. Anybody out there? .
73 de Stu W7FE
Henderson, NV
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