[Milsurplus] RE: BC-312/348

[Kargokult@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/17/02 10:46:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
antqradio@juno.com writes:

<< 
 Fort Monmouth wrote a RFP (Request for Proposal) around a specification
 and later a RFQ (request for quote).  GE won the original contract but
 for whatever reason, could not deliver a spec compliant radio.  Fort
 Monmouth went to RCA because RCA was building the '312/342 series of
 radios and therefore, had some experience.  This is why the '224A is so
 different compared to the '224B and later radios and has close kinship to
 the BC-312 series. 

--I can see how this caused the earliest deployed sets to be BC-224-A,
but i don't see how it explains the difference between the BC-224-A and 
B versions.
Hue Miller