[Milsurplus] tuning unit question for bc-375

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In a message dated 4/4/02 12:06:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
bwild@earthlink.net writes:

<< There would be no use for tuning unit for broadcast band and
 the receiver (BC-348) did not cover those frequencies. Also
 the BC-312/BC-342 used with the BC-191 also did not
 cover the broadcast band. >>

--However, the BC-314/ 344 did. And these were sometimes paired
with the 312/ 342.

--When i was in high school, around 1963/ 64,  one  of the 
guys built himself a broadcast station, KEHR "Edmonds Heights
Radio", Edmonds WA. He was on 880 kHz and told me he was
running about 10  watts. ( I even had the QSL once. ) I saw the 
transmitter  and it was a BC-191/ 375 type TU with a couple 6V6
built right into it, MO + PA. Power and modulation were external.
I don't think it was a frequency-modified TU from another range, 
he didn't say anything about changing the frequency by pruning
coils or anything like that. He was never able to figure out how
to tone down the harmonics and that's what got him out of the
radio business: a caller to his payphone booth request line
number turned out not to be someone requesting Beach Boys,
instead a vengeful ham threatening to call FCC if KEHR didn't
desist immediately.
Was this the unknown BC band TU ?
Later, when i worked in a surplus store, i met a customer who
told me he had also broadcast, using a BC-375 with dynamotor
and all. He said he had a TU that covered the broadcast band.
I didn't ask, so i don't know, if he really meant, covered "part"
of the broadcast band, or covered it squarely.
Maybe there really are some few out there, altho i never have
seen, or even read about one elsewhere, in the last 40 some
years.
-Hue Miller