[Milsurplus] BC-375/BC-191 qyestion

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Jack,

The short answer is yes.  The three connectors (either straight or rigght 
angle) normally used with the BC-375/PE-73 also fit the BC-191/BD-77.  However, 
the BC-375 was mostly used in aircraft where the wiring at that time was mostly 
made up in place, and had the braided armor/shield over it.  So the most 
common connectors used had "P" or "Q" in the middle of the nomenclature and had 
solder glands on the rear of the shell.  The BC-191 was mostly a ground and 
vehicular set and the sets came with pre-built rubber jacket cable.  And the 
connectors have "R" and "S" in the middle of the nomenclature and have cable-clamp 
type backshells.  But the same basic PL- number (i.e., PL-P59 and PL-S59 are 
interchangable single-contact straight connectors with solder gland and cable 
clmap respectively).  You find much the same thing in SCR-522 connectors (where 
there are three variants) and sorta in Command Set connectors.

Oh, and the BC-191 uses an additional 4-pin connector and has two sets of the 
four chassis connectors, the second set being on the bottom.

In a message dated 7/19/2005 10:12:39 AM Central Daylight Time, 
scr287 at sbcglobal.net writes: 
> Does the BC-191/BD-77 use the same connectors
> (PL-59 and PL-61) that the BC-375/PE-73 uses?
> 

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