[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] 520-1500 ARC-5 receiver: BC-946 orCBY-46145 ?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Hue,

I don't know for sure but I don't think so.  The US gave tons of equipment to 
the French and others under NATO but I'd be very surprised to learn that they 
sold radios to civilians.  Much of it was still in warehouses in Europe into 
at least the 80's.  The guy I was referring to was in AAF/USAF and working in 
avionics (or radio repair) at the time.  He just walked in and signed for it 
(and an ARA BC band receiver that unfortunately he did modify).  And then later 
brought them home with him.

In a message dated 3/20/2005 4:39:11 PM Central Standard Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> >And the BC-455-B, according to the guy I got it from, came out of the 
> salvage 
> >yard at what's now known as Rhein-Main AFB  in 1946.  He brought it back to 
> the 
> >States in 1948 and it sat in his garage until last year when I acquired it.
> 
> Robert, do you know: did the US sell in Europe their WW2 surplus comm 
> equipment?
> Yes, maybe dumb question - BUT the surplus that did appear, mostly later, 
> like the
> BC-312s still advertised in French radio magazines i saw in 1972 - could 
> have come
> from their own  national military stocks.  And the few QSLs and photos i've 
> seen
> from for example, late 1940s German civilian hamshacks, seem to have 
> homebrew or
> German military equipment.  -Hue Miller
> 

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