by GP49 Mon May 19, 2014 12:39 pm
Neat. "ARKAY" was "Radio Kits, Inc." which marketed a wide variety of electronic kits in competition to Heath, Dynaco and Knight-Kit (Allied) in the 1950s and 1960s. They were somewhat lower in cost and less stylish than the Big Kit Brands. Their instruction manuals were rife with errors; upon opening up an Arkay kit, one would find a pile of Errata Sheets and had to be careful to annotate the construction manual before starting to build the kit!
My Dad got an Arkay ST-11 Binaural AM-FM stereo tuner for his system. It was the most high-styled Arkay I ever saw. He replaced it after broadcast FM Multiplex Stereo came along, because the Heathkit AC-11 Multiplex Adapter he bought and built turned out to be unacceptably unstable. He must have traded the Arkay because I wasn't able to find it in the house after he passed away, six years ago. Too bad...I recall that as a mono tuner it was sensitive and performed well.
I learned about the Heathkit AC-11's instability myself, sadly, later on with a different one!
Attached: EBay photo of Arkay ST-11...so it's subject to disappearing!
