[ARC5] White faced BC-442
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Thu Apr 24 19:05:16 EDT 2014
If you're referring to T.O. 08-10-50 dated February 15, 1943, Figure 1 page
x clearly shows a black faced meter in the BC-442-A.
Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 04/24/2014 16:46:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes:
> Figure 1 at the beginning of the manual. But it's a very poor 1 bit B&W
> contrasty copy of an original that was not too great to start with - I
> think you're just seeing the reflection of the white photo background
> off the meter glass that was rationalized by the scan software into
> white. AB5S reminded me that there was an actual white face meter on
> *one* of the earlier SCR-183 command sets - in the Western Electric
> SCR-AF-183 (BC-AF-230) - but it remains the only one I've ever seen in
> any of the "command sets". There mist have been a period of
> experimentation in the mid-1930s - the BC-AA-191 and BC-191-A
> transmitters both have white faced meters. It didn't last long.
>
> 73,
> Mike KC4TOS
>
> On 4/24/2014 5:13 PM, Mike Everette via ARC5 wrote:
> >If you take a look at the SCR-274N manual on BAMA, there's a photo of a
> group of equipment including a BC-442A relay unit which appears to have a
> white-faced meter -- or maybe I'm being fooled by the scan. I forget which
> page it's on, but could swear I saw it earlier this week.
> >
> >73
> >
> >Mike
> >WA4DLF
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