[ARC5] BC-375 / BC-191 Owners:

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I've explained this apparent anomaly dozens if not hundreds of times on 
these lists.  The year indicator in Signal Corps Order Numbers is the US 
Federal Fiscal Year, not the calendar year.  Today, the Federal Fiscal Year runs 
from 01 October to 30 September.  But from the first Roosevelt (FDR, not TR) 
to the second Reagan administrations, it ran from 01 July to 30 June.  So if 
your BC-191-A had been ordered six weeks later, it's Order Number would 
have been nnnnn-NY-37.  And obviously, a bunch of equipment (nearly 11,000 
orders) was ordered in July 1935 and not very much for the rest of the fiscal 
year (less than 1500 orders).

Tech manual dates, on the other hand, are Calendar Year dates.

However, back my guestimatted dates shown below up a year..

In a message dated 12/09/2011 19:43:34 PM Central Standard Time, 
aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes: 
> The tag on my BC-191-A sez Order 12370-NY-36, Date 5-18-1936
> 
> The BC-AA-191 tag reads Order 10977-NY-36, Date 7-16-35
> 
> Go figure....
> 
> On 12/9/2011 6:59 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 
> >There was a BC-191-A, in addition to the earlier BC-AA-191.  I don't have
> >an individual manual on it or on the -AA- but would guess that the -AA- 
> is
> >late 1936 and the -A late 1937.  I have an original manual on SCR-177 and
> >SCR-188 which use the BC-AA-191.  It's dated February 1, 1937.
> >
> >In a message dated 12/09/2011 15:37:23 PM Central Standard Time,
> >chejmw at buffalo.edu writes:
> >>I will take a look at the data plate again, last one I had
> >>was a BC-191, I just put it down stairs a few days ago
> >>I will see if it is ready for pictures.
> >>Jim
> >>WB2FCN
> 

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