How Do You Miss Something This Big? Old Age?

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Todd,
Aren't you like 20 years younger than most of us??

Maybe half that Frank, if that. I'll hit the half-century mark early next year, which is why it's a bit disturbing to be forgetting or missing something as big as this. 

Jack, not sure if you looked at the AAFRadio link but Mike has an excellent dissertation on the RAX which sure got me excited about them. They're sorta like an ARC-5 receiver on steroids, with multiple bands. I need to snap some shots of mine, especially since I promised to send some shots to Mike over a year ago when I got them, and more recently Dave WB4IUY. Might be the perfect time, while getting some inside shots of the ATC.

Stevo, the beauty of the ATC/ART-13 audio is a little switch behind the chart on front that allows choosing between carbon or dynamic mics. Crappy audio is not mandatory, even stock! 

[Ralph W3GL]

    Yeah, was good to get a radio fix after a long time...

    Tried to fire up the VW440 last evening and now its crapped out so
    guess I'll have to clear the other operating desk of miscellaneous
    computer debris from cleaning the Trojan Horse virus I picked up
    several weeks back and get the old TS940 back on line till I
    get the VW modded 440 back to Dave...

    (Dave call me, please...)

    Be back on line in a day or so, hopefully, to continue with my Radio Fix.

 

[Ralph W3GL]

    Geez Todd, my daughter was 50 back on the first of March.  Actually she's
    a leep-year brat (Feb 29, 1960) and my son is three years younger... You
    fit right in between them......

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

It's not an age thing Todd. It's a "you got too much stuff" thing.    EITCH-EYE

[K1JJ]

Random spousal comments:


How many rigs do you need, dear?   Just one more, dearest...

You can only operate one rig at a time, dear.  


It's a great investment - safe as the stock market, dearest.


Just wait til I show up on the air with this new rig - the guys will love me!


It was a steal - the guy didn't know what he had, dearest.


But dear, you already have a room full of "projects" that don't work.


Just watch when Junior gets interested in ham radio. We'll be able to keep in touch with him every day on the air, dearest!  You'll be glad I bought all this stuff.

T

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Much simpler than that here, Tom. Along the lines of "If something else is coming in this house, something needs to be leaving". Which was actually my suggestion originally, sort of a preemptive strike. It's also kept me focused on clearing things out.

It's not an age thing Todd. It's a "you got too much stuff" thing.    EITCH-EYE

FB OM, that's what Elmer said! To me, too much means you can't move, can't find things, all that. This was more a case of not remembering that I had it, or had it here, or CRS, or....

Anyhow, here are a few shots of the innards. The gray paint is interesting as all the ART-13s I've seen were bare aluminum. You can see some simple mods the former owner did to the audio module in front, easily reversible should someone want to display it in a museum I guess.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

That thing is clean!

[The Slab Bacon]

Todd,
         My ART-13 is also has a gray painted chassis. Maybe it was a "pacific theater" thing for dampness / corrosion protection??

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

I'm not sure, Frank. That would be a good question for Mike Hanz, who visits the board from time to time. I know they sprayed MFP on stuff going there, not sure if it was from the start or later in the war and maybe the gray paint was an earlier version.

I thought perhaps it indicated early production sets which, like other items later in the war, went unpainted, had brass or metal tags swapped for plastic, and other corners they cut to save resources.

Does your transmitter tag say ART-13 or ATC, Slab?

[The Slab Bacon]

I dont remember, Todd, I'll have to take a lookie next time I'm in the man-cave.
One of these days I'll put it back together and build the powa supply.

Mine had the remnants of every living thing you could imagine in it, included a shedded snake skin!!   

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

Never saw a snake skin Slab, but plenty-o-critter remnants.

Strangest things I recall came out of old TV sets. One had been crammed full of macaroni noodles at some point, which came pouring out when I removed the back. Another was had around 14 different size knitting needles in back from small crochet hooks to the foot-long colored needles with the shiny nail heads on them. Always figured some kid was jealous of his or her mom spending their time on sweaters and shoved them in there. How they did it without hitting the HV is still a mystery!

[The Slab Bacon]

Never saw a snake skin Slab, but plenty-o-critter remnants.

Todd,
         thats not the first radio I got that had a snake shed skin in it. My Atwater Kent model 52 had one also!! Ya just never know what you will find in an old radio!!   

[w1vtp]

That is REALLY nice!  Makin me feel real bad I got rid of mine.  Thanks

Al