***Possible Spam*** Re: [Milsurplus] BC-348 Finish - Paintquestion

[Hue Miller]

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From: "WF2U" <wf2u at starband.net> 

> I also use a 1950's vintage transceiver which is mission equivalent to the
> GRC-9, almost the same size and shape factor.
> The receiver puts the GRC-9 to shame, it has a crystal filter position for
> CW, and it's a true single frequency control transceiver, unlike the
> separate Rx and Tx in the GRC-9.

So, how widespread was this xcvr in the Soviet military? Wasn't the common
transceiver the single-band thing, with limited top frequency, and the odd
tuner box on the side?
> 
> The technology may have been a bit behind us, but it was reliable and
> functional.

As to functionality of the war machine, and i can't address specific units
of electronics equipment, but consider the military accidents  through the 
years, including submarine sinkings, nuclear explosions, aircraft accidents,
security failures...

> And finally, what does the "age of computing" have to do with a functional
> and reliable HF receiver which could survive a nuclear EMP?

The "age of computing" has to do with such things as target acquisition
and weapons aiming systems.

If you're solely planning on nuke war, why produce conventional army
materiel at all?

Is DSBAM more functional and reliable than SSB or RTTY ? ( As in aircraft
communications. )

How would you compare the security and data rate of a human C.W. operator
to a data transmission system?

> 
> I also didn't think much of the Russian electronics, until I acquired a
> number of radios and started to use them. BTW I never had a bad cap in any
> of the Russian stuff...

And consider the home front, and the cost, how the effort to maintain a parallel
universe stripped the civilian economy of quantity and quality. Not that Russian
civilian electronics was real junk, but it definitely was poverty-stricken.
Remember the stories, true, about the proclivity of Russian TV's to burst into
flame?

I'm not saying Soviet military electronics was junky. It's just that it amazes me, i 
suppose, that it was produced at such effort and cost, and was still decades 
behind Western line equipment.
> 
> I just call that Russian stuff new vintage - tube technology had an extra
> 10 - 15 years to mature over our technology in Russia...
> 
> 73, Meir WF2U
> Landrum, SC

You can see military electronics from the PRC as similar.  -Hue Miller