[Milsurplus] BC-348 thoughts

[Jack Antonio]

Hue and the group

Did you also notice the nameplate says it is manufactured
by Western Electric?  I don't believe Western Electric ever
made any BC-348s. My best guess it is a nameplate off
a BC-229 or 429, and the lettering obscured during the
printing process.

I have two editions of the book in question, the earlier
one says Volume one on the title page, the later one leaves
that out.  Wonder what was planned for subsequent volumes?

Jack

Jack Antonio WA7DIA
scr287 at sbcglobal.net

Hue Miller wrote:
> Was looking at "THE SURPLUS HANDBOOK"  "VOLUME 1 Receivers
> and Transceivers"  ( no further volumes were published, AFAIK ), by
> Caringella and Clark, 1959. There is a photo of a BC-348. I note that
> in the upper left, where some versions have a CW OSC  ON-OFF knob,
> this one has a "hole cover" plugged in, and below it the CW OSC ON-OFF
> toggle switch, as on other versions. How explain this manufacturer change?
>>From the photo it's apparent this is not a post-military hammy mod. The
> nameplate in the photo, the receiver number is obscured by paint or some-
> thing so you really cannot tell what version this was. Very oddly, it looks like
> from the photo, the nameplate was pried off, and then maybe just glued back
> onto the front panel for the photo, and crooked too. ( Yes, there are some 
> slapdash attributes of this book, for example using the same photo of a 
> BC-344 for both the BC-314/344 and BC-312/342 pages - except one photo
> has too much light exposure. Very professional job.