[Milsurplus] BC-610 on 160 meters.

[Dave Jeffries]

I'm slightly confused here,

I'm sure I remember our CAP Sqdn's BC-610(C) as being able to
operate right on down to 1500 Kc (actually a little bit into the AM
broadcast band).   In fact, as Cadet Communicators we had some
**VERY** specific  instructions  to leave the lowest-frequency
tuning unit right there in the box seat where it belonged.

Are we saying that some versions had to be modified to operate that low
??

BTW we had our 610 mounted in the center of the rear of a 40 Pax bus.
Face of the set facing forward.
The two receivers (BC-342s, as I remember) were on a shelf on the
right (as you face forward) sitting on top of the control unit for the
generator (towed in a trailer) and the phone patch (to EE-8s).

The rectifier was under the bench and  the speech amp was on a
shelf behind the operator (left side of the bus).

We sat on a long padded box that held the tuning units, crystals,
and coils in nicely engineered compartments.

The entire setup was appropriated from an old truck mountable
comm van being decommissioned by AF MARS.
I  can't remember the nomenclature of the van.

There was also a BC 312 for use when mobile and the towed
generator was not running as well as a civilian Gonset Communicator
III for local area comms and an aviation version of the same
Gonset Communicator III for ground/air comms.

I  have recently accumulated an air band Gonnie III and due to
the probable low number of them in this area,  it may even be the
one that I remember as a cadet (way back in the early 60s).

Dave Jeffries  N0GMP
near Rapid City, SD
sd0044@enetis.net
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Subject: [Milsurplus] BC-610 on 160 meters.


> Hello,
>
> With the frequency conversion kit MC-509, working on 1.8 MHz  is
possible
> for the BC-610.
> The modification of Radio-Transmitter BC-610 is unsolder one end of
resistor
> R9. Unsolder and resolder at each frequency change is very difficult.
> Has anyone knowledge it is possible to make this resistor
"plug-in-unit" ?
> Many thanks for help.
> Also I'm needing the TU-61.
>
> 73.