[Milsurplus] possible modifications for RBC receiver?

[George Babits]

On "modifications" to old gear I look at it this way. WHY?   I have always 
thought that when you get something that is a part of history you should use 
it to experience things the way they were, not try to make it into something 
it was never intended to be.  Aside from ruining a nice radio, you miss the 
fun and challenge of using a real radio.

73,
George
W7HDL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] possible modifications for RBC receiver?


> On 18 Sep 2016 at 19:02, George Babits wrote:
>
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Well, if I need to have a product detector, I just use my Collins S-Line
>> gear.
>
> Which uses that exact same single-triode PD I mentioned....
>
> The way I look at it is that if it works well in Collins gear, then it is 
> at least OK.
>
>>  Works great and saves a lot of ruination of older receivers.  Nothing
>> wrong with the older receivers and I much prefer to use them the way they
>> were designed to be operated.
>
> Me too. :-)
>
> I'll say it again: the OT were no dummies. They had darned good reasons 
> for doing what
> they did. And I have found that MOST modifications to mil gear that hams 
> tried actually
> make the gear work WORSE than it did before it was modified.
>
> And, I will repeat again, this includes most of the modifications which 
> were published in the
> ham literature. Very, very few were ever thought out properly.
>
> The Surplus Perversion Manuals were some of the worst. I suspect that most 
> of the mods
> published in those rags were never tested thoroughly by their designers.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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