[Milsurplus] Electric Radio - February 2006

[Mike Morrow]

The most recent issue of Electric Radio has some interesting things in it.

(1)  There's a historical article about a WWII rush order filled (in two
days) by Motorola/Galvin for 500 BC-611 units set on 7050 kc.  No specific
dates are given, yet the time of day of an aircraft departure is given (I'd
have preferred to know dates instead).  What interests me is that 7050 kc is
not a standard BC-611 frequency, and the BC-611 frequency range was 3500 to
6000 kc.  So...is this a mistake, or were these very special BC-611s?  If
the latter, what would be the point of requiring these units to operate on
7050 kc, well outside the normal upper limit for a BC-611 (as well as that
of the SCR-284 radios with which it might need to communicate)?

(2)  Text on page 44 and a picture of a six foot tall HF transmitter on page
45 is labeled as a US Navy "TBY."  I would have expected Electric Radio
folks to know that couldn't possibly be correct.

ER hasn't been covering the old military gear the past few years nearly as
well or as often as they were doing ten years ago.

Mike / KK5F