[ARC5] BC-610 questions

[Richard Knoppow]

   I don't have one but may someday.  I was looking at the 
military manuals from BAMA and learned a bunch of stuff I 
didn't know.  It appears that there were many versions of 
the BC-610 and evidently they were built into the 1950s.  I 
did not know that the earlier versions did not go beyond 8 
Mhz, was this true of the HT-4 also?  I also didn't know 
that each tuning unit had a VFO on it. How did one adapt a 
TX to an external VFO, or is that even possible.
    I rather like the large number of meters on the earlier 
versions but it appears the later ones used a multi-purpose 
meter for some of those functions. That would certainly have 
been an economy and also meters were evidently in short 
supply during the war.
    What I mainly want to ask is if anyone on this list has 
an active BC-610 of any version on the air?  What sort of 
opinions do users have of them?  Are they actually 
practical?
    I will also post this to the ARC-5 list although I 
suspect most of the members are also members here.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com