[ARC5] Fwd: Re: BC-453 in the SCR-274N Configuration

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

I also miss the marine radio beacons, especially the Sequence groups where they had to six beacons transmitting sequentially on the same frequency. 

I also miss picking up the Marine CW from the ITT coastal station WSL. I toured the WSL receiving station in 1982 before they shut down.

I had a couple of BC-453 receivers and traded them to a ham friend who wanted to go back to sea. He used them to pick up both sides of the QSO to bone up on this code. I got a surplus SP-600 in the deal.

End of an era...

Mike N2MS


> On 02/25/2023 7:45 AM Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> It appears that the once-useful Directional Adcock beacons disappeared in the USA more than 60 years ago.  I never heard one.
> 
> In 1964 I started listening to a BC-453-A that my dad W5WRR hooked up for me when I was age 12.  I fell in love with the 410 to 530 kHz range that was the MF maritime (Morse) band.  That was THE most interesting segment of the RF spectrum until it all shut down in 1999.  Up to that I usually kept a receiver bedside on the 500 kHz distress and calling frequency at night.  I miss it more than anything else on radio.
> 
> Mike / KK5F
>