[Milsurplus] Documentation errors, Belton

[aGEnuine Ham]

Jim:

Belton:
Well, I wish I had paid more attention to the attendees.  I was there,
and wondered if I should mention that K5JV is cleaning out his Bandera
barns in preparation to sell the property, and had many pieces of surplus
there.  Lots of ARC-5 stuff in all manner of condition included in two
trailer loads of stuff.  He sold the 750TH to someone, by the way.  He
also is trying to find homes for some BC-610s.  One 610I (not his) there
found no customers at $700, and it was operable and recently on the air. 
Go figure.  Next swapfest, we all need to coordinate!

Manual errors:
I believe I had mentioned on here that I was engaged in sorting through a
few thousand documents relating to HFDF.  I thumbed through several of
interest to me, and found errors in almost every one I looked at.  One
which I discussed with Robert was page 43 in the 10 April 1944 issue of
TM11-227 which shows a photo of three gray front Super-Pros, and the text
calls out three BC-342s in the description of the SCR-237.  It also
specifies "One Transmitter ANBT-3 (Navy ATC)".  Is ANBT-3 some anagram of
ART-13?

Then, same book, page 45, the SCR-244 is described as a commercial
Hammarlund Super-Pro (black front in the photo), with a loose 8" speaker
balanced on top.  Gives the frequency range 0.54 to 20 MHz.  But, on page
116, the SCR-704 has what appears to be an almost identical photo from
the same session but without the speaker, (carefully look at the
lighting, shadow details, spacing between receiver and power supply,
reflection of ruler in chrome, etc., etc., etc.), calls it a BC-794 and
specifies a frequency range of 1.25 to 40 MHz.  Super-Pro on 40 MHz? 
Huh?  What am I missing here? Was there such?  Really?

73, 
George
W5VPQ


On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 12:41:48 -0500 antqradio@juno.com writes:
> Robert and group
> A while back I had asked about the CH-294.  In searching through
> Chesson's great lists, I had found that the chest was part of the
> SCR-543.  Chesson also listed, as part of the SCR-543, the BC-312.  
> At
> the time I was working on a BC-342 and was kind of hoping that this 
> chest
> was for that series of receivers.  Alas, this does not seem to be 
> the
> case for that case!  This just confirms that copy errors are to be
> expected, even in "official" documents.  Getting the facts straight 
> is
> one of the many reasons I enjoy this list so much.  The wisdom that 
> is
> shared here is greatly appreciated.
> 
> On another note, the Belton, TX fest seemed to have quite a few 
> (well, a
> bunch more then in years past) military boatanchors.  Lots to choose 
> from
> but didn't see anything I didn't already have at least one of.  
> Traded a
> Viking TX for two R-388s, one a nearly complete chassis, the other 
> is
> just barely recognizable as a -388.  Met William Donzelli, who else 
> from
> this list made it?
> 
> Regards from Arkansas,
> Jim
> 
> On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 09:54:44 EDT WA5CAB@cs.com writes:
> > Hue & Group,
> / snip/
> > And of course errors in Chesson's (and my) early list have spread 
> > around.
> /snip/ 
> >This particular one is (or was) in the lists on a 
> > semi-official Signal Corps history site, which gives it the aura 
> of 
> > being "official".
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