[Milsurplus] tuning unit question for bc-375

Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:13:40 -0700

if this TU exists sure would be fun to find it!
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] tuning unit question for bc-375


> In a message dated 4/4/02 12:06:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> [email protected] 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
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