[ARC5] Abrams Main Battle Tank Gets Radio Upgrade.

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Actually, all nonsense aside but based only on inspection of a number of 
units so marked and not on any paper I hold, it may have involved the 
installation of the four brass or phosphor bronze flexible grounding straps between 
the rear of the chassis and the upper part of the dynamotor shock mounts.  
If it involved any other changes, I never dug deeply enough to ID them.  If 
you have a BC-453-B marked M-1 and it does not have the ground straps, I will 
add that I did inspect one out of several so marked that did not have the 
straps but had marks or scuffs around screws or holes in the top of the 
dynamotor deck from which I concluded it must have once had the straps.

In a message dated 3/27/2011 10:16:46 PM Central Daylight Time, 
brianclarke01 at optusnet.com.au writes: 
> I've got one of them, too. What does it mean?
> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
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> >Todd, KA1KAQ <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >No one was supposed to know about this. Now the Russians will be wise to 
> >us.
> >
> >On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 9:24 PM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> 
> >wrote:
> >>  " FS:  Military command set BC-453 with FT-230. 190-550Kcs.
> >>    Has "M-1" stenciled on front so is possibly from a tank...."
> >>
> >>                        Gotta love it  :-)

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