[Milsurplus] BC-222

[Bob Wilder]

At 07:45 PM 5/1/2004 -0700, Hue Miller wrote:

>If you look at the  BC-222 ( p/o SCR-194 ) in the context of vhf 
>exploration in the last half of the 1930s, including ham 5-meter
>activity, with many articles in the radio mags on 1 & 2 tube
>transceivers, you will see that the -222 is not so unusual, but
>squarely in tune with  developments in radio.
>Japan and Germany certainly developed portable radios along
>similar lines,

Borrowed a Japanese model from my elmer back in 1949.  It used a
single type 30 as regen receiver and Osc/PA modulated directly by
a carbon mike.  Remember that some of the parts were made in the USA.
Also was in the 28-??Mc freq range.




> but unlike the US, they used such basic radios in
>combat use thru WW2. I mean superregen receivers with free
>running transmit oscillator. UK, Italy, and USSR i don't know
>anything about. 
>-Hue Miller
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