[Milsurplus] [ARC5] SCR-522 Playing.

[Richard Solomon]

There were a lot of us in the Boston area using
these on 2M AM back in the late '50's and early
60's.

73,  Dick, W1KSZ



On Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 5:49 PM hwhall--- via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I have to say, though, the 522 doesn't look very sexy, like ART-13s or
> even Command Sets.... LOL
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
> On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 06:37:13 PM MDT, Christopher Bowne <
> aj1g at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> These pics are motivating me to get a complete 522 and associated
> dynamotor supply that have been shelf queens for many years here up and
> running.   Back in my novice days at age 14 in 1967 as WN2ZPS I had BC-624
> receiver and BC-625 transmitter chassis that came as freebies along with
> the used DX-40 I bought to get on the air on HF CE with.  Never did get the
> receiver working but I built up a little B plus and bias supply, and used a
> slot car 12 volt DC power pack for the filaments and relays. I didn’t have
> the auto tune assemblies and just manually tweaked the 4 tuning controls,
> made about 8 watts of AM.  Made a 5 element beam with a 2x4 boom that sat
> on the collar ties of the unfinished attic where I had may shack, I had a
> stepladder to move it around  to various beam headings to other novices and
> techs on 2 meters in Rockland and Bergen counties.
>
> Once worked down to Ft. Monmouth which was about a 75 mile path.  For
> receiving I had a borrowed Ameco converter into my EH Scott SLRM  at 14-18
> MHz.
>
> Used to be quite a number of us school bus riders on 2M in the late
> afternoons, Fortunately, I didn’t become trapped into spending too much
> time on 2M AM and got my code speed up to go for my general after about 8
> months as a Novice.
>
> Chris AJ1G Stonington CT
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> > On Apr 21, 2025, at 12:51, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> And here's the photo link I flubbed:
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/YhHe9esfEH5X7d8cA
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