[Milsurplus] [ALU] Re: [BoatAnchors] A Good Start for 2017

[Mccarty, John J (John)]

Dave;


  What are you planning to use for an antenna for this set? The set has 
what looks like oval sockets on the back that somehow take the square 
loop antenna using

lots of screws, or so it seems.


73 + hny


John n9hrt


On 1/1/2017 10:54 AM, David Stinson via BoatAnchors wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
> Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] A Good Start for 2017
>
>
>> Dave -
>>
>> The BC-9 originally used VT-1 tubes. 73 & HNY - Mike 
>
> Thanks for writing, Mike, and you are absolutely correct.
> However- Good Western Electric VT-1s, if I could find them, would 
> require a sizeable lottery
> win to purchase.  The direct-replacement GE VT-11s are also nearly 
> unubtainable and
> nearly equal in expense.  With a slight adjustment of filament supply 
> voltage (6 VDC vs 4 VDC),
> the proper 5V is delivered to the 01As and I believe
> they will work in this application.
>
> I've been asked why I'm reviving this 95-year-old
> radio- shouldn't it be kept untouched?  It's a fair question.  My goal 
> is to both enjoy reviving and operating these
> veterans and seeing them preserved beyond my time with them;  I don't 
> see myself so much their "owner" as a temporary steward of them.
> Cold, dead radio "mummies" sitting on a shelf stir little to no 
> interest; "radio museums" are closing all the time and their 
> collections are going to the recyclers.  A working radio,
> singing and reminding the viewer of their mission
> and history- those get noticed and thus, have a better chance to be 
> preserved. "Radio Mummies" end-up as beer cans.
>
> Why do you see fewer WWII milradios offered?
> Because most of them sat in garages until Gramps could "get around to 
> it," and the only thing "got around to" was Gramps, by The Grim Reaper.
> The kids shovel all his "old radio junk" into the dumpster and it's 
> gone forever.
>
> The question is "how can I make this radio play
> while doing no significant, meaningful damage to it?"  I know people 
> who would say heating
> a solder joint "damages" it.  Well, maybe.
> But read what I just wrote again and "pick your poison:"  an 
> "undamaged radio" on its way to the crusher or a revived one
> on its way to a new, happy steward?
>
> Anyways.... All the best for 2017.  I always look
> forward to anything you contribute.
>
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
>
> P.S.  The capacitors in this rig are almost a CENTURY old- Cornells 
> Dubilier.  Have tested almost all of them and so far, all are good!
> https://goo.gl/photos/EAmUJPJno9HpwmAV6
> Amazing.
>
>
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