[MRCA] Stuff at Dayton/Xenia and other thoughts

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Ray,

I labor of love. Can we get a picture of the bottom wiring? Don't get a hernia turning it over.

T Mark 2 was my first Military set. My uncle bought it from a department store after the war. His son, my cousin, was more interested in audio than radio so I trade a tape recorder for the set.

Mike N2MS

> On 05/06/2026 2:27 PM EDT Ray Fantini via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> The dreaded SRR-13! Imagin that was the solution for doing SSB with that stuff?
> Myselfe would like to get one of those PRC-40 sets just to channel up on 146.52 and have a huge primitive radio. Completely pointless but appeals to the darker side of my personality.
> Speaking of such have finally finished my WS-19 Mark 5, the radio started life as a British not the US knockoff WS-19 that I bought at Hamvention last year. It was a real basket case, came with a box of broken parts and assorted knobs and the like. Very hacked, and every wire in the radio suffered what a lot of the British stuff did with age becoming useless because if you touch it or look at it funny what remained of the insulation would fall off.
> So, I decided to strip the radio down, replaced almost every capacitor and all the point-to-point connections and got the receiver going, then being no fan of the WS-19 mixing scheme that results in an annoying image and a output tank that somehow had the tank located in a remote variometer rebuilt the transmitter with crystal control and installed a output tank in the PA along with T/R relay where the UHF radio once lived and now I have the WS-19 Mark 5, or Mach Five, just like Speed Racer! Lot of effort went into this project, not along the lines of doing some hundred-point restoration that others would pick apart and tell me how I don't have this or that correct but as a radio that I can use this year at Hamvention and that in many ways is fun to use and better then if you just did the stock WS-19
> No good reason, just wanted to do it. And I love the patina of the case. I recently won a new Icom HF transceiver, Think it's an IC-7300 or something like that with all the SDR processing, auto tuner and everything else, it's still in the box. No real desire to use it. But with the Mutant WS-19 #5, I can't wait to get that running in the field. I am planning on having it on the air at Hagerstown MVPA this weekend.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH