[Milsurplus] Thoughts on BC-1000

[Hue Miller]

Referring to the manual to try to figure out the harness, then hefting the
thing on my back, i was thinking-
 the thing with full battery load looks like a real load for the canvas, especially
if you're running a jostling it a lot. I wonder if the canvas tended to give out?
I've seen TBY canvas that the straps stitching has tended to come apart, for
the same reason
the thing is not as difficult to battery up as i'd thot. 4.5, 90, 150 volts- not
as bad as the TBY or worse, the BC-222/ 322.
you could get away, i wager, with just running the +150 off the +90 line
instead, if the +90 source was stiff. Final power would be down, but you're
not operating under Combat Emergency conditions. The transmitter mixer
would be the question mark.
it looks easy to substitute plug-in solidstate replacements for some tube
functions, like the final, or a diode tube, for example. Note,  i said "plug-in", 
as in, built on tube bases, tube plugs. Maybe even all functions.
military VHF FM gear never became very popular during the golden
years of surplus, did it? I mean, hams hacked with alacrity on the VHF AM
gear, the ARC-4's, the ARC-1's, the UHF APN's and BC-645s. But hams
didn't seem to go for FM mode back then. Even the push button tank sets
didn't really get much action on 10, converted Command Sets seem to have
been more popular there too.
-Hue Miller