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

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

Ray - I actually ave a arc5 rx that probably holds the record  for the  
most bastardization.... it was sooooo hacked  I just had to save it!
 
Yes we are  going to  do a display along this line... I very  much consider 
it  a segment of communications history.
 
 But iI also need to sore  something in the next  few days  ready to do to 
test my new call out!
 
Ed
 
In a message dated 10/2/2011 6:59:12 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes:

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