[ARC5] Goodies

[Mike Everette via ARC5]

I have a BC-348-Q like that... found it at a hamfest.  Looked like a zombie that emerged from a WW2 crash site.  Most of the paint on the front panel, and some on the case, was gone and the panel is rather pitted.  But when I opened it up just a crack... WOW.  All original, with a dyno.  I paid $60 for mine, after some back-n-forth; the seller had been hoping for an "eBay price" but became convinced that I might be the only interested buyer....

I cleaned it up and tightened all the grounded points, checked for shorts on the B plus -- and finding none, crossed my fingers, tuned up my nose and put 28 volts to the plug.  The receiver came right up.  No smoke, no burning smells; so I let 'er rip.  For the first hour or so, it seemed like there might be a gain issue from one end of any band to the other; but the longer it ran, the better it got.  In fact, I've seen few BC-348s that work better than this one.

When beat-up stuff that others would deem worthless junk (not junque) works like this, I'm thrilled.  I even took it on Field Day this year.  You shoulda heard the comments of the Kodeless n' Klueless.  They wuz amazed.

73

Mike
WA4DLF
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On Tue, 9/16/14, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [ARC5] Goodies
 To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
 Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 12:01 PM
 
 "That stuff looks like he found it
 with a metal detector"
 
 Considering where it is now located - in the CA High Desert
 between Lancaster and Mojave - that is a distinct
 possibility.
 
 Even at that it looks better than the BC-348-H I bought from
 Arizona.  It appeared to have been in an airplane crash
 and then left to lay in the desert.  But for $25.00 and
 the fact that it was totally original, it was well worth
 it.
 
 Wayne
 
  
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