[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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