[ARC5] BC-348-G Re-Thread

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

My comment 5 years ago was actually based on interchangability of manuals.  
Which doesn't answer the question of whether or not the -G had the LF/MF 
band.  The Handbook referenced says (as I think I wrote earlier this week) 
that nothing earlier than H be installed in any aircraft transiting OUTCONUS 
because of the probable requirement for the LF/MF band.  That implies that 
both -E and -G lacked those bands.  But there must have been something odd 
about the G as the list covers the B and C as well as the later ones.  Yet the 
TM interchangability list says E, M, and P manuals are interchangable.  And 
the earliest one I have covers E, M and P (but not O or S).  If anyone had a 
G I'm sure they would have already piped up.  But does anyone have an E?

FWIW, although I do not recall the data source(s), a note in my database 
record on the -G says Stromberg-Carlson and Lend Lease???.  Could have been 
like TCS-1, -2, -3 and -4, all shipped overseas.  That could explain why no 
examples have been reported.  The DM-28-G turning up in England wouldn't 
refute it.  There is ample precedent for the case where S-C built the radio and 
Colonial the dynamotor.  I'm not saying that's what actually happened - only 
that nothing so far says that it didn't.

Robert D.

In a message dated 09/09/2012 16:02:54 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> Clare wrote:
> 
> >OK, I found it in my Gmail archive, from 10/1/2007.  I had to search
> >on everything Max has posted.  Sometimes I think I save too many postings
> >but then...
> 
> Thank you Clare!  I was wasting all manner of time searching without 
> success.
> I need to have a system as well organized as you have yours.
> 
> I'm responding with a copy of the thread to the lists, since some of the
> discussion from five years ago may be of interest to others.
> 
> Robert's note also answers my question of if the G model could have been
> included in the EMOP group.  Apparently not.
> 
> And Dave's mention of a Hallicrafters-made model???
> 
> Thanks again and 73,
> Mike / KK5F
> 
> 
> Here is the BC-348-G Thread, Recovered by Clare:
> 
> [ARC5] Slightly OT but interesting BC-348G???!!!
> ______________________________________________
> AirRadio AirRadio at dsl.pipex.com via mailman.qth.net 
> 10/1/07
> 
> Whilst digging around in a vast box of junk and radio bits I have
> discovered a complete BC-348-G dynamotor, well until now I did not know
> they existed, but here it is in real life, DM-28G serial number 13, order 
> number 2154 CHI-41, made by Colonial radio corp. This must have been an 
> order that got junked or something, certainly no details anywhere on a G
> model, unless it was to power something else??? any ideas.
> 
> 73 Max 
> ______________________________________________
> 
> WA5CAB at cs.com via mailman.qth.net 
> 10/1/07
> 
> I've never come across anything specific on it, either.  But it may have
> existed, but maybe only a few were made before it was superceded by the H, 
> J
> and/or M.  The Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook, 1943, lists it with a 
> note
> "Not Interchangable".  Meaning not interchangable with any other model.  
> But
> it doesn't say why.  For reference, this list of BC-348 models says for
> example for the H, "Interchangable with K and L". And for the A, D, F and 
> I,
> "Equipment does not exist".
> 
> Robert Downs - Houston
> ______________________________________________
> 
> Mike Morrow kk5f at earthlink.net via mailman.qth.net 
> 10/1/07
> 
> Max wrote:
> 
> >Whilst digging around in a vast box of junk and radio bits I have 
> discovered
> >a complete BC-348-G dynamotor, well until now I did not know they 
> existed,
> 
> Ken Corwin's (SK) informative BC-224/BC-348 pages at 
> http://nj7p.org/history/bc-348.html
> implies that the BC-348-G existed by citing a USAAF reference that 
> presumably referred
> to this model.
> 
> >but here it is in real life, DM-28G serial number 13, order number
> >2154-CHI-41, made by Colonial radio corp.
> 
> Ken did not cite that 2154-CHI-41 order number, so that would 
> appear to be information that Ken did not have.  That very low serial 
> number would seem to be consistent with a small production run.  That 
> the maker was Colonial Radio is very interesting.  I thought that the 
> only makers of the BC-348 were RCA, Belmont, Stromberg-Carlson, and 
> Wells-Gardner.  I wonder if the G was similar to the E/M/P models.  It 
> would likely be impossible be to find details of the order number today.
> 
> BTW, this is not at all OT for this list.  Thanks much for this info.
> Now if only someone could dig up some info and photos about the mythical
> BC-349 transmitter companion to the BC-348 in the SCR-260 radio set!
> 
> Mike / KK5F
> ______________________________________________
> 
> David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com via mailman.qth.net 
> 10/1/07
> 
> >I thought that the only makers of the BC-348 were RCA, Belmont, 
> >Stromberg-Carlson, and Wells-Gardner.
> 
> I know that Hallicrafters made some (no kidding), since I saw a photo of
> the nomen plate years ago.
> 
> A fellow was supposed to make a trade with me for it, but it fell through.
> Don't now remember what model or the name of the guy.  Should have kept at
> it, I guess.
> ______________________________________________
> 

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