[Milsurplus] BC-375

[Ed Zeranski]

...Just like the heavy Navy shipboard 24/7 transmitters like the TBL, TBK, TBS, etc., had a different design requirement from the intermittent duty short range sets like the TBY, TCS and MBF.  When you compare apples and avocados you're apt to get a strange taste.


Yep. online duty cycle is a thought/requirement! I had a BC-375E back in 1959 but had to drop it and all my radio stuff when we moved in late 1962. I always liked the set but never saw one again until the first of what was become West Coast MRCG when Hank Brown, Dave Stinson, Ray Mote, and Henry Engstrom got some folks together in San Luis Obispo. Dave Stinson brought in a borrowed set to explain neutralization etc..it was too cool. Back to the Navy TXs and duty cycle...I have an SRT-14A with the amp in work for conversion to SRT-15. The 14 is for key down 100% TTY/FSK or whatever, several hundred lbs for 100 watts leaked out of a big tube. A TCK is in work too but I got that just because I liked how it looks.

EdZ