[ARC5] Partial BC-348-R at Auction

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 14 Oct 2012 at 0:00, Mike Morrow wrote:

> This BC-348-R is above $1100 after 17 bids:
> 
>      http://www.ebay.com/itm/280987595048
> 
> Nice though it may be, it does NOT have the proper dynamotor installed.
> Rather, some adaptation of a "DM-310" is where the DM-28-R should be.
> 
> The seller confirmed this, and stated that a DM-28-R is available for
> an additional $150.
> 
> As expected, it's a bidding war between two people.  But...why would two
> bidders be willing to sacrifice so much cash for any complete BC-348-R,
> much less one missing the correct dynamotor?

Well, that is a complete mystery to me too: as are those who put a piece of hacked or 
deteriorated mil gear up on eBay for sale at some completely insanely ridiculous price.

My first really good receiver was a BC-348 which my Mother bought for me. This was in 
1957. She got it from a local ham, Lee Pratt, who was one of my Elmers. The only mod done 
to it was a properly built and installed AC supply. He also included a BC band ARC-5 to use 
as a "Q-5er" with it.

I later traded that back to him for a brand-new RAL-7 with power supply so I could operate on 
15 meters.

Over the past year or two, I have been watching eBay for a somewhat-hacked or "gently-
modded" BC-348 I could install here, but so far, the prices for almost all have been way out 
of my reach, and those that weren't, were so badly hacked I didn't feel I wanted them. One 
was even painted almost chartreuse with house paint. It was gawdawful.

Ken W7EKB