[ARC5] Undoing a BC-453 conversion

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Ian,

I don't recognize that specific mod, but it's been a long time since I quit 
playing with aircraft sets.  

Besides Cowan's (CQ) Command Sets, they also did another one called Surplus 
Conversion Handbook (Cowan # 122).  Also, Editors and Engineers did three 
volumes of The Surplus Radio Conversion Handbook.

You didn't mention specifically whether your BC-453 had had the BFO 
transformer removed, so I assume it wasn't.  But if it was, for some reason I have a 
box full of replacement 85KC BFO transformer units.

In a message dated 3/9/2005 12:22:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
ka1kaq at gmail.com writes: 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 09:52:40 -0800, Ian Wilson <ianmwilson at earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
> >I recently obtained a BC-453 in quite nice condition, apart from a
> >couple of modifications:
> <snip>
> 
> Ian - 
> 
> Welcome aboard. There is a wealth of information on this list as well
> as the milsurplus list with respect to the ARC-5 and SCR-274N Command
> sets.
> 
> I'm not too hot at figuring out the mods from description, but I'll
> pass on a tip the Dave Stinson gave some years back: find a copy of
> the old CQ Command Sets book. These were published back when surplus
> was everywhere and Command sets were a dime a dozen. They contain many
> different modifications for "improving" these rigs back in the day.
> It's a must if you choose to deal with these modified units. As Dave
> pointed out, they are most helpful for un-modding a hacked up radio
> that might otherwise get trashed. Dave as well as a few others on here
> have seen a lot of the common mods as well as the not-so-common ones,
> and can perhaps help you out with the mods to your set.
> 

73
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