[Milsurplus] BC-348Q minor parts

[Gregory W, Moore]

GA, Dave,
 Sure, I'm kidding  :-)    You just have to know that once I open the 
thing up it is going to look unbelievable inside.   I', just trying to 
start with SOME hope, after all it is Memorial Day, and all I did was 
give it a kind of cursory inspection, and actually was stupid enough to 
put the thing on a variac without actually looking inside,  I just got 
it so late in the afternoon that I figured I would do the variac thing 
without the use of my  TV-7, all kind of resistance measurements,  and 
the magnifying lamp and loupe.  Heck, I didn't even hook it up to the 
URM25D for a realistic sensitivity check, just stuck an antenna on the 
sucker and checked for a few NDB's, the SITOR on 518, and then tuned 
around for signals, using a good 600 ohm headset, then turned the whole 
shebang off, and left  it on the bench after making a few notes.......

Don't worry, I hold no optimiistic hopes for "extensive mods, lack 
of:"..... I fully expect that major rebuilds/ restoring will be 
necessary :-)   I just got the darn thing at such a great price that at 
least, that alone, while should be filling me with abject fear, kind of 
made me somewhat pleased..  


Don't worry, willl  be keeping the reflector amused with the travails 
and the highly sanitized version of my screamed epithets.   I hold no 
optimism, for since I also am a greenkey fanatic, know what evils lurk 
in the heart of those mechanical  evil beings :-)    One starts thinking 
"Gee, I need a keytop for the "N" and 36,500 parts later, am happy to 
escape with so much luck, (M14/15) or "all I need is  a new belt for the 
typing reperf drive", and after banging ones head against the shack 
walls (concrete) because you have run into a search for pure unobtanium, 
and multiple pieces of pure unobtainum at that, you realise that it will 
take "just a little more than one expected :-).

OK, I'm Kidding, and the reflector will be hearing the gnashing of teeth 
and the wailing--hi-- however, we will prevail in the end, and another 
BC-348Q will once again, recieve it's signals in pristine glory and 
fantastic sensitivity.   

73 de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/ NNN0BVN PA
hopeless optuimistic (until I look inside --hi)





David Stinson wrote:

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>
> Gregory W, Moore wrote:
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>> ...  I have no reason to believe any
>> extensive mods were done except for a few minor ones...
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> You are kidding, right? ;-)
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