[Milsurplus] BC-610 on 160 meters.

[mikea]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:21:25PM -0600, Dave Jeffries wrote:
> 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.

When I was in the Silverware Patrol, we hardly ever got a chance
to lay hands on the gear: the "adult" members wanted to play all
the time. I actually got a chance to do some traffic-passing on
the Texas net once, when I was about 13 and at Summer Encampment
at Amarillo AFB. Rode there and back, from Houston, on a C-119,
courtesy of the 433rd Troop Carrier Wing, MATS, out of Kelly AFB.

I _certainly_ remember the smell of the sagebrush in the morning,
and the howls of the coyotes at dusk and dawn.

Now I live near an airport with the following comment on its
approach plate in the state airport handbook: "Caution. Coyotes
on runways."

Who else here was in the Silverware Patrol?

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964