[Milsurplus] [ARC5] RAX

[Dave Merrill]

https://www.estatesales.net/AZ/Glendale/85306/3178887

BC-312-N, BC-348-Q, CG-46115, R-111 A

Looks to be in reasonable condition.

Not mine, just posting to share info.


Dave
N9ZC

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 1:47 PM Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> I always really liked the looks of the RAX. It was kinda, love at frst
> sight. The BC-652 has rather similar style but of course is much more
> robust - and heavy ! (  my simple way for beginners to determine whether
> ground or air equipment: can you stand on it, with no harm done ? ( imagine
> doing this, rather than actually performing such test. )).  What really
> sunk the RAX hook for me was the article, " The Secret Weapon" by C. M.
> Stanbury in Radio-TV Experimenter magazine, which included a small low-res
> photo of its lovely blavk hulk. The idea was, you link RAX #1, the LF,  to
> your Halliscratcher etc. SWL grade receiver, as an outboard IF - audio.
> Dispensing with the rest of your SW rec. except for its front end. You
> could accomplish this easily by just wrapping a few turns around the rec.
> mixer tube out to the RAX antenna.
> Some years after the article i actually wrote the author offering to buy
> the rec. but he replied he still loved it. His had a wooden carry handle
> added to the top. I wondered later if i would ever see this particular RAX
> show up on Ebay. When i had this author's qth i should actually have
> interviewed him about his career in DXing and his book. Then he was gone
> and now little remembered by other than a few fanatics like me.
> BTW, if you like the looks of the RAX, BC-652 you will certainly
> appreciate the BC-652 prototype photo in that online early war directory of
> Signal Corps radios.
> Also BTW, how does one type an opus like this on a phone ? You have to use
> a stylus. i have a Samsung Note phone, but with your regular phone one of
> those ballpoint pen / stylus-end thing lowers the error rate and makes the
> task do-able. You still wouldn't want to write your history book using the
> phone.
> - Hue Miller
>
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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