[ARC5] BC-611 Air to Ground

[D. Platt]

On 2/9/2014 4:21 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
>   "They were just a bit too high to tune and use them directly on our (then) regular frequency of 4585 kHz."
>
> I assume that since the BC-611 requires that a plug-in coil be changed when the crystal for a new frequency goes beyond a certain range that presented a problem with putting the sets on 4585?
>
> Wayne
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My recollection is exactly that.  I was just getting into amateur radio 
and did not have the experience nor knowledge to do anything other than 
listen to those who "knew".  We did not have coil sets and whatever else 
necessary.  I do know that one of my mentors, a gent who was a wizard at 
crystal grinding did provide crystals for the attempts to put them on 
our desired frequency.  So, that was not the issue.  I don't know what 
the range of a given coil set might be, perhaps someone has the book and 
can quite that data and confirm if we simply were ignorant of how to 
make them work, at the time, or they truly were out of range, as-is.

Jeep K3HVG