No Spam Here - Joe Schmo wrote:

Once had a complete set up given to me - cables and all. Back then, you
couldn't give em away - at least not around here. I tried! Computers hadn't
quite caught on yet so far as News groups and E-Bay. I had no use for it and
I don't collect "antiques", so I scrapped it. I sold the coils and various
other parts out of them for a decent price just as "surplus" parts. Needless
to say, I didn't get rich from selling the parts, but I managed to fetch a
few bucks.

I had a BCB ARC-5 rcvr back in the early 80s. They were a tad pricier
even back then than the more common SW units. I paid $15 when SW ones
were running about $5-10 G

Sold it to a guy out West that was accumulating a bunch of them for some
sort of BCB propagation study. Darn good little receivers for BCB DXing.

-Bill M

I had a BCB ARC-5 rcvr back in the early 80s. They were a tad pricier
even back then than the more common SW units.

I looked in an old 1950s CQ mag and the BCB ARC 5 sets were even then bringing
4x what the SW sets were selling for, eg $40 instead of $10. Guess they always
were comparatively scarce.