[Boatanchors] BC 348 - Modifications are bad

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

The majority of the surplus "conversion" manuals and handbooks were written 
over half a century ago, when there were tens of thousands of the radios 
around, and no one thought there would ever be any less.  The majority of the 
modifications were poorly thought-out and given that the whole system was available, 
not just the bare radio, mostly unnecessary.  The equipment as-modified 
generally performed more poorly than it had before, and the average modification 
was poorly implemented anyway.  I've seen thousands of the incompetent butcher 
jobs in my 46 years of playing with US military sets.  My storage building is 
full of them.  That's where about half of the restoration parts I supply come 
from.

Anyway, it's your radio.  You do whatever you want to it. When you get 
finished, it will be worth far less than when you started.  

Robert Downs - Houston
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