[NJARC] A Blast from the past...

[John Ruccolo]

Hi Joe,

Those meece know a good radio when they see it....or
live in it. ;-)

Yeah, I can't believe the difference between a 3-ohm
speaker and 4 or 8 ohms is really gonna hurt anything.
I think the manual writer was a bit over-zealous.

What a GREAT radio. As Al Klase will tell you, RCA
"got it right" BIG TIME with that set.

I own an RCA ACR-136, an ACR-155 and was recently
lucky enough to get an AR-77 from Commander Rob Flory.
Those are all interesting sets, but all are "misses"
in one way or another. The 136 and 155 are actually
repurposed console chassis with a BFO tacked on. At
least the '77 appears to have been designed from the
ground up as a communications receiver.

But the AR-88 is the REAL DEAL. Best receiver of its
era.

JR

--- JOE CRO <n3ibx at verizon.net> wrote:

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> _______________________________________________
> John,
>         I hope you didn't remove the mouse
> droppings, nest, etc. Don't you 
> know they make AR-88's more selective? It has
> something to do with changing 
> the "Q" of the coils. (Al Klase could explain it
> better than I could). I 
> left everything inside of my AR-88, and it plays
> much better!
> 
> On a serious note, It IS NOT necessary to have a 3
> ohm, and ONLY a 3 ohm 
> speaker connected to your RCA AR-88, as stated in
> the manual. The writer of 
> the manual claims damage to the audio output
> transformer if you attempt to 
> use anything else. I've had a 8 ohm speaker plugged
> into my AR-88LF with no 
> apparent distortion, and no "crap out" of the audio
> transformers.
> 
> Mod-U-Later,
>                       Joe Cro N3IBX
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Ruccolo" <jr6v6gt at yahoo.com>
> To: "New Jersey Antique Radio Club"
> <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:33 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [NJARC] A Blast from the past...
> 
> 
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> > _______________________________________________
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I hate to say it, but I must:
> >
> > It took you TWELVE HOURS to figure out that the
> Philco
> > 70 was unplugged???!!! That's gotta be some kind
> of
> > record! ;-)
> >
> > BTW, mice have excellent taste in old radios. My
> RCA
> > AR-88 came with a *huge* mouse nest, complete with
> a
> > mouse skeleton. In the mouse world, it is
> considered a
> > great honor to die inside an AR-88.
> >
> > Seeya later,
> >
> > JR
> >
> >
> > --- philcoguy at verizon.net wrote:
> >
> >> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
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> >> Hey John you forgot some things
> >>
> >> The dead mice and dead rats!
> >>
> >> Working on a philco 70 for 12 hours only to find
> out
> >> it was not pluged in!!
> >>
> >> Looking in to you radiola 18 and seeing 2 eyes
> >> looking back at you!!!
> >>
> >> Waching the mouse leave your radio!!!!
> >>
> >> Coming to terms that you must be a nut to love
> >> restoring radios!!!!!
> >>
> >> John Tyminski
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> >
> >
> >
> > 
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