[ARC5] BC-611 Air to Ground

[Tim]

Hi Jeep - Interesting...There seemed to be a *lot* of 5500 Kc FT-243's
around in the 60's.  So a SAR Common usage might have explained the
abundance...
I had a bunch at 25 cents each - used one for a 160 meter-to-80 meter
receive convertor for my BC-454.  It shifted 1.8 Mc to 3.7 Mc nicely!  LOL

Tim
N6CC


On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, D. Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:

> All,
>
> For what it may be worth, in the late 50's, the Civil Air Patrol received
> several hundreds of virtually new BC-611Fs that were all set up for a
> frequency of  5500 kHz.  That frequency, I was told by our AF laiason
> officer (also a Command Pilot), that the frequency had been a common-use
> SAR HF frequency in years past.  They were just a bit too too high to tune
> and use them directly on our (then) regular frequency of 4585 kHz.
>  However, the CAP used them for a number of years, as-is, until some air
> carriers complained of interference.  They were disposed of as DOD surplus
> and I know not where they ended up.
>
> Regards
>
> Jeep - K3HVG
>
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