[Milsurplus] BC-230, ham hack art'l

[D C (Mac) Macdonald]

Callsign W5EHC seems to ring a bell.  Do you have a name?
Possibly Carl Drumiller, later W5JJ, SK for over 15 years?

Mac, K2GKK/5
Oklahoma City



-- Unserviceable but Repairable <cosmoline at ba-watch.org> wrote:

W5EHC wrote a early fifties CQ art'l titled "Converting
the BC-230."  It has this 3rd paragraph

As it is sold, the BC-230 has several components that will
not be used and should be discarded initially.  These are
the two VT-25 tubes, the two VT-52 tubes, their four
sockets, the antenna ammeter, and the side-tone
transformer*.... unless fortunate enough to have original
power plug, replace w. octal.  Etc.
  
Elsewhere he sez BC-230s can be had new for $3.50.  He
advises to, say, use parallel 6V6s for modulators &
807/6v6 for tx.  Etc.

Art'l munges the tank sec'n of plug-in but with unexpected
good advice.

230 didn't have swinging link/load-coil per 274N/TCS.
Instead antenna went to tap on shunt-fed tank.  & W5EHC
within limits retained this for mobile use.  No coax if
running in trunk.  golf clap.

Art'l an example of how many of these surplus gizmos met
death.  And now comes a theory.  I maintain many were
ordered for a future project that never was to be.

& the ham's decedants conveyed those things to the present.

These are the intact survivors we 'discover' today.

Going back & reading that excerpted paragraph, I'm reminded
of the joke on "how to cook a carp."

Clean carp & season
Nail to oak board
Cook in 500-deg. oven for 2 hrs.
Remove from oven, discard fish, serve board

'rm

*note morse was sent as mcw.  Changing load wud have gagged
dyno to a degree on "real A1".  Aramture inertia might have
helped, tho.