[Milsurplus] Use of an external VFO with a BC-610 transmitter?

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

After Korea, the Navy installed BC-610's in some Reserve Centers and Training 
Facilities.  They had a rather nice outboard VFO custom built for them.  I 
had one in the late 60's (and the BC-610-F it went with).  I know what happed to 
the 610 but have no recollection of where the VFO went except that I don't 
think I recovered it after coming home from Vietnam.  In case anyone should ever 
stumble across one, it was from very dim memory maybe 14" wide and sat on top 
of the transmitter, connected to whichever TU was currently in use by a 
double banana plug into the crystal socket.  My -F had an SO-239 installed on the 
rear lip of the top cover.  VFO used miniature tubes and had an internal AC 
supply.  Was band-switching and had a Millen or similar tuning dial.  Finished in 
gray or maybe gray hammertone.  That's about all I remember about it, except 
that it had a tendency to chirp.

Robert Downs - Houston
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