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Someone else’s unfinished project

[Today’s run: nothing.  Yesterday 20×200]

At the hamfest last weekend I was mostly in sell mode.  But I did wander around a bit and ponder the prices of things that I would have liked to have owned but didn’t want to peel off $$ for.

One table was a couple of guys from the Vicksburg area and they had a number of interesting items.  I passed on the rusty Heathkit DX-100.  But I did bring home a partially completed receiver.

I took some pictures and posted questions on the eham.net boatanchors list.  Some experts quickly filled me in on what I had.

It appears that someone attempted to make a receiver from junkbox parts using the general scheme of the ARC-5 WWII military receivers.  But it doesn’t work.  I think the LO is dead.

So now I have another project.  I can either strip it out for parts or try to fix it up, or almost anything in between.  Having a power supply, tube sockets and IF cans already in place makes it kind of attractive for a project attempt of my own.  We shall see.

But, for $5 I confirmed that I’m not the only person in the world who starts projects and does not finish them.  That is some comfort in itself, probably worth the money.