[Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters SCR-299/HT-4

[rbethman]

Guido,

This is the "other" Bob.  There were hundreds of these stored in forward 
locations, undreground in Europe during the "Cold War".

It would be interesting to find out where they all went.

I'm at the point that *IF* I were to locate and obtain one, my wife most 
likely wouldn't care if I parked it in the back yard!

The fight would come from the City and it's recent ordinances.  *IF* a 
vehicle is parked on your property - off the paved driveway" they issue 
citations.  My driveway is as large as they allow.  The radio equipment 
wouldn't care about the slope of the driveway, BUT, I'm am certain that 
the generator would need some serious re-positioning so that it would 
function properly!

Bob - N0DGN

On 12/30/2010 12:01 PM, Guido wrote:
> Bob,
>
>    I think that there is an article in an old Electric Radio about the system
> that you mention with the R388s. Someone bought it from Fair complete as a
> trailer unit and went on to restore it. They must have made thousands of
> BC610s in 10 years and I am sure that some of them landed in this island
> during WWII but in all my years as a ham I have never found one. The lack of
> basements or attics here do not allow a lot of storage so I guess that those
> BC610s that landed in the hands of some local hams may have been discarded
> years ago. That plus the fact that there are only a couple of hams
> collecting BA gear here and I am one of them.
>
> 73s
>
> Guido KP4FAR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob W7AVK [mailto:rolfb at accima.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:30 AM
> To: Guido
> Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Hallicrafters SCR-299/HT-4
>
> Guido - That transmitter was made for over 10 years and its radio system was
> up graded several times.  In the late 1950s when I was in the Signal Corps
> it was used in a RTTY system installed in a radio hut on the back of a duce
> and half [2 1/2] truck pulling a PE75 generator.  Used a pair of Collins
> R-388 receivers for diversity reception.
>
> Those were the days. :-)
>
> 73  Bob  W7AVK
>
>
> On 12/30/2010 6:22 AM, Guido wrote:
>> Thanks for the excellet link Tom. Great historical video. I wonder if
>> anyone has ever found a complete unit with truck and generator.
>>
>> Best 73s
>>
>> Guido KP4FAR
>>
>
>
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