[ARC5] BC-342-N

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 9 Nov 2015 at 22:33, kg4kgl at gmail.com wrote:

> I was wondering what the common wisdom is regarding this particular
> receiver? There is one for sale. My use for it would be copying CW on
> the 80and 40m bands.
> 
> I see it was powered from 115v mains, so no hacking should be needed for
> amateur use. 

Well, as David says, it will certainly hold your house down during a hurricane. It is quite 
heavy.

>From the reading I have done on it, it is a very good receiver, quite stable and fairly 
sensitive. The only "issue" that might occur is that the crystal-filter is somewhat odd, and 
alignment by the book is also odd.

You will find this site particularly helpful.

http://www.tuberadio.com/robinson/museum/BC-312/

The BC-312 is the DC version, while the BC-342 is the AC powered version. The receivers 
are otherwise identical.

I have two BC-342s here in the queue to be restored.

Ken W7EKB