[Milsurplus] Help ID: BC-144

[William Donzelli]

> Can you direct me to any resource who might have any information on the
> NESCO BC-144 receiver?
> 
> I can find no information on the set, other than a couple of references to
> "Coastal Artillery, Ship and Shore."  The set is made by NESCO and is
> Serial Number 4.  The date is 1932 and it uses 4 peanut tubes.  It is a
> regen and tunes the broadcast band.  It is original, near mint and
> untouched inside and out.

This is the receiver for the SCR-162. I don't have the TR for this set 
(anyone? anyone?), but from what I have seen, the receiver is pretty much 
the same thing as the BC-137 of the SCR-136. The only difference I can 
see is actually the maker - NESCo vs. Westinghouse. SCR-136s were used to 
communicate with aircraft.

Anyway, with the SCR-137, the receiver slipped inside a portion of the 
woodcased BC-122 transmitter. Another way of looking at it is that the 
transmitter was built into the field chest, but the receiver was not. The 
whole set is powered by a massive motor-generator (450 pounds - all for a 
set that *might* put out 50 Watts from VT-4Bs).

His BC-144 looks to be from a later order. The ones I have seen, both 
BC-137s and BC-144s, are from 1927 orders.

William Donzelli
aw288@osfn.org