[Milsurplus] More on BC375 Tube Subbing

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The father of a friend of mine at LSU (c. 1961) was doing the same sort of 
thing, but I never knew any of the details.  The families name was Verlander and 
as I recall, they lived in Larose Cutoff, LA.  I recall Wesley (the son) 
reading the snide remarks about the BC-375 in one of the Surplus Conversion 
Handbooks and laughing and saying that his father must never have read them, or knew 
that they weren't true (which they weren't, but I didn't know it at the 
time).

In a message dated 6/7/2005 4:44:19 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rbrunner at gis.net writes: 
> Re:
> >Dubose converted BC375's for use in the 2-4 MC Marine Band
> >along the Gulf Coast. They used 838's as the modulators.
> >Course they also changed out the 211 in the final to an 813
> >along with a better rf chain and speech amp so other "Fine
> >Tuning" was incorporated. Bottom line for mentioning this
> >is that for the most part "Most" of the 375 was kept intact
> >so apparently at least in the modulator stage this was a
> >win-win situation.
> 
> Interesting idea!  The 813 will be adequately driven by a 6L6 crystal 
> oscillator, and the 838's are good modulators.
> 

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