[ARC5] OT The BC-659- what were they thinking?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

The packset variant that used the BC-620 was SCR-509.  At a guess, based on 
the number of PE-97's versus the number of CS-79's that turn up, SCR-510 
accounts for maybe 60% of BC-620's and SCR-509 the other 40%.  But the point 
is that use of the packset variant wasn't an "attempt", which implies a 
hurry-up temporary effort, but was planned that way.  In my opinion, one of the 
worst mistakes that the Signal Corps made during WW-II was in building the 
SCR-300 (BC-1000) to cover 40-48 MC when there was nothing else in the 
inventory that it could talk to.  The SCR-508, 509/510, 608 and 609/610  could all 
talk to each other.  

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480

In a message dated 06/01/2016 07:03:27 AM Central Daylight Time, 
releazer at earthlink.net writes: 
> I'll read of your adventures with interest.  Over 10 years ago I found a 
> BC-620-F sitting by the side of the road a quarter mile from my house with 
> a sign that said "FREE."  It had no tubes but I have acquired some and I 
> bought the manual as well.
>   
>  By the way, somewhere I have a photo of a BC-620 being used as a 
> backpack, an attempt to enable our troops in Normandy to talk to our tanks. 
>   
>  Wayne
>  WB5WSV  
> 
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