[Milsurplus] Easier to buy than sell

[Joe Foley]

> Weight was only one consideration for WWII aircraft
> radio.
> The transmitter also had to be reliable, 
> easily maintained by lightly-trained "90-day-wonder"
> radio mechanics,
> have good spare-parts logistics and available
> quickly.
> The BC-375 fit all these requirements; 
> it had a long history of satisfactory service
> pre-war,  
> they were very easy to maintain,
> there were already large stocks of spare parts
> available and
> they could be mass-produced with a minimum of
> retooling.
> There were many more sophisticated designs produced
> during the war, but none in the Army or Navy that
> fit 
> these early-war requirements so well. 
> If you judge transmitters by strictly technical
> standards,
> a half dozen beat the -375.  
> If you judge them by the totality of 
> requirements for a liaison transmitter
> in the first two years of the war, 
> the -375 was way ahead of them all.
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And when you consider that, in 1943-4-5, it took four
MONTHS for EACH supply ship to go from San Francisco
to the Phillipines and back all this became even more
critical.  That would mean that each supply ship made
maybe eight trips during the war years IF it held
together that long.  Of course the military ships and
passenger ships could do it faster, but they were
screaming along at 32 knots!

Joe


		
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