[Hammarlund] How unusual is my Super Pro

Roger D Johnson n1rj at adelphia.net
Sun Jun 18 00:22:28 EDT 2006


Soundval wrote:
> I have had this set in my storage for several years.
> Have no idea from whom I bought it.
> What I found was something I believe to be rather unusual.  It is a
> military,Signal Corps, BC-1004.  All of this type have usually numbers like
> 1004A, 1004 B etc.
> The plate on the front shows that something was ground off where a letter
> would have been.
> The bands are rather interesting  for that period.
> 540-1160  Kcs
> 1160 -2500 Kcs
> 25 - 50 Mcs
> 50 - 100 Mcs
> 100 - 200 Mcs
> 
> Comments anyone?
> 
> Gene Rippen, WB6SZS

Hi Gene...

I think there must be a mistake in the labeling. I don't think that
the old octal tubes with grid caps would operate anywhere 200MHz!
The more common ranges would be 2.5 - 5.0 MHz, 5.0 - 10.0 MHz and
10.0 - 20.0 MHz. It looks like someone left out the decimal point!

73, Roger

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