[ARC5] LM/BC-221 Freq Meter Count
Tom Bridgers
tarheel6 at msn.com
Sun Oct 16 20:13:50 EDT 2011
I have about 10 LM's and an equal number of BC-221's.
As someone said earlier, with one exception, all of my Freq Meters areeasily calibrated to be on target with the frequency book.
I have several LM's with no book, but I have a copy of a program writtenby BA Bob, AKA a professor at NC State Univ, that will create a freqbook. I haven't actually used it, because as another list membersaid, I've found using an Excel spreadsheet easier.
In terms of use, I have 2 LM's in my shop, and I use them from timeto time.Best,-Tom KE4RHH
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> I've been buying and rescuing these critters for over 50 years and during
> the past 10 years or so I kind of set my max price at around 10 bux or so if
> they look like they might work. Oddly, I've see very few of the LM or
> BC221s that have been modified or taken apart or repurposed to use the new
> touchy feely verb.
>
> BUT it's a shame to see these unit just sitting on the shelves
> gathering dust. As one who actually used the BC 221 in the active Army I must say
> that while they worked quite well, they pretty much fell out of favor
> when we got the AN/GRC-19s to replace our AN/GRC-9s. And as an Army operator
> I didn't miss the BC-221 or the AN/GRC-9 with all the fiddle farting one
> had to do to get on frequency. (This was in 1958-58 by the way).
>
> So what's a good use for the things since so many were made over the
> years and seem to be everywhere based on swap meets and other ham radio
> venues? I think it's quite a good thing to convert (notice I don't say
> hacked) these unit into something that's useful and fun to play with. Those
> without calibration books are great candidates for conversions since not many
> folks are going to take the time to build a new book (I've done that and
> while it's not technically difficult, it's sure tedious). Why not make a
> nice HF vfo or a Regen Receiver or small transmitter in the nifty enclosure
> and use that cool variable cap and dial system that's soooo smooooothe.
>
> What I'd really like to know is how many in these august groups
> actually have an LM or BC-221 in their shop or shack and do they actually use
> them for anything? I do use a few of mine just to stay on top of the clever
> if not tedious interpolation process. So how about it folks. Lets get a
> tally on those who both love 'em and use 'em
>
>
> 73 Bob, KE6F
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> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST
> To: MillerKE6F at aol.com
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> > I've been buying and rescuing these critters for over 50 years and during
> > the past 10 years or so I kind of set my max price at around 10 bux or so
> > if
> > they look like they might work. Oddly, I've see very few of the LM or
> > BC221s that have been modified or taken apart or repurposed to use the
> > new touchy feely verb.
>
> Have you checked the "crystal radio" folks? They love the tuning
> capacitors for their sets. They are a world unto themselves.
>
> -John
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> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST
> To: ARC5 at mailman.qth.net, Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
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> I have 66 of them that I can account for. About a third incomplete or
> hacked or both, and classified as parts units (which includes any missing the
> matching cal book). I use a pair of -AK's with RA-133-B's installed as Ken
> mentioned earlier (receiver front end tracking/alignment).
>
> I have a pre-production model (BC-221-T1) but never did find a complete
> BC-221-A. Otherwise, I have at least one of the remaining 25 models.
>
> In a message dated 10/16/2011 17:55:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
> MillerKE6F at aol.com writes:
> > What I'd really like to know is how many in these august groups
> > actually have an LM or BC-221 in their shop or shack and do they actually
> > use
> > them for anything? I do use a few of mine just to stay on top of the
> > clever
> > if not tedious interpolation process. So how about it folks. Lets get a
> >
> > tally on those who both love 'em and use 'em
> >
> >
> > 73 Bob, KE6F
> >
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:20:14 -0000
> From: "Kenneth G. Gordon" <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] Article in Nov. QST
> To: MillerKE6F at aol.com
> Cc: ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
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> On 16 Oct 2011 at 18:55, MillerKE6F at aol.com wrote:
>
> > What I'd really like to know is how many in these august groups
> > actually have an LM or BC-221 in their shop or shack and do they actually use
> > them for anything? I do use a few of mine just to stay on top of the clever
> > if not tedious interpolation process. So how about it folks. Lets get a
> > tally on those who both love 'em and use 'em
>
> I have two BC-221-AKs which I use for alignment of recievers.
>
> I have two LMs, which I bought for parts for $9.99/pair, but when I got them, they were
> complete although one was missing a cal book.
>
> I also have one of the **-173 VHF jobs, which works very well.
>
> So: total: 5, 2 of which are in use, two more available as standby rigs, one for parts.
>
> Ken W7EKB
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