[Milsurplus] RE: BC-312/348

[William Donzelli]

> 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.  This of course implies that there are a few radio
> prototypes from the GE contract with BC-224 labels and no suffix, rarest
> of the rare, unobtanium!

To my knowledge, the BC-224s were interesting - serial "X1" was the GE 
prototype and serial "X2" was the RCA prototype. The RCA design won over 
the GE design. No other BC-224s were made, and both prototypes probably 
were junked.  
 
William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org