[Milsurplus] BC 191 info needed

Tue, 17 Dec 2002 06:08:11 -0600

At 02:26 AM 12/17/2002 -0800, Hue Miller wrote:

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>From: "Bob Wilder" <[email protected]>
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> > Some operators used to key the 375 just right so it would sound like a
>rooster
> > crowing to let the home base they were OK and on the way home....
>
>That's great, just a great anecdote.
>And it reminds me of signals i still heard on the 8-MHz marine bands into
>the 1970s.
>Signals, that altho recognizable as CW, were also totally laffable.
>Hue Miller

It should be noted that a lot of those chirping CW signal were from BC-375's
and BC-191's that many of the high seas fishing fleet boats were using.  I read
somewhere the almost the entire Chinese fishing fleet used BC-191's they got
surplus.  Even some of the locals around Mobile, AL used BC-191's on the
shrimp boats in the 1950's for 2MHz marine frequencies.

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