[Milsurplus] I got my general... time to Convert an ARC 5!

[Ray Fantini]

Ham radio from a historic prospective! See if you can find a copy of the 1966 or there about “The Radio Amateurs Handbook”  pages 225 to 228, Converting Surplus Transmitters for Novice Use, don’t need to disable the VFO like in the original article but that will give you the guide lines for building a vintage sixties station using a ARC-5 transmitter. Put that together with a BC-348 or other period commercial receiver and you have CW operation in the sixties! Better yet try an ART-13 and BC-348 combination and operate AM on 3.885 or 7.290 although it will aggravate some members of this reflector the modified ARC-5 transmitter is where many of us started and was a common configuration in the fifties and sixties. Maybe you can build up in some corner a display of Ham use of surplus in the post war years.
Ray F KA3EKH


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Subject: [Milsurplus] I got  my general... time to Convert an ARC 5!

I got  my general... time to Convert an ARC 5!  well...  maybe  not.....

Heh...  this is  sad... I have hardware here.... physically  tons of
hardware at the museum..... but.. now that I have passed the  test  for my ticket
have nothing   with modern ways and convenience to  use.  Just thought I
would get a Technician License   so I could  mess  with microwave stuff... and
 I decided  while I  was  thee and had passed the test  to take the General
  and  passed that. I have been told I will be in the database    first
part of the  week....  now I need a radio!  suggestions?  gifts?  trades?

Thanks,

Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC

See the Museum's Web  Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)

We are always looking for  items to add to the museum's display and ref.
library - please advise if you  have anything we can use.

Coury House / SMECC
5802 W. Palmaire Ave.  Phone 623-435-1522
Glendale Az 85301 USA