[Milsurplus] possible modifications for RBC receiver?

[Meir WF2U]

I agree with George on this also 100 percent; this is exactly how I treat and use my surplus gear. 

Meir WF2U

On September 18, 2016 9:57:28 PM EDT, George Babits <gbabits at custertel.net> wrote:
>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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