[Milsurplus] BC-348-Q questions

[jcoward5452 at aol.com]

I had an AN/ARC-5 R-23 receiver once that had a little box with a BNC 
female and a wire to the antenna post.Not a Ham job as the box had 
welded seams.Don't know any Hams that would go to that much 
trouble...The box was mounted useing top and side cover screws.
 Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: kk5f at earthlink.net
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-348-Q questions

Michael wrote:

>I just received a BC-348-Q ...

>The receiver went through Pensicola NAS O&R ... 1st quarter, 1965.
>Is this an indication the Navy used the ARC-8 as well?

The USN had some aircraft with a SCR-287 in them, such as a few USAAF 
B-24
aircraft that were converted to USN service as PB4Y aircraft.  Larry 
has
probably seen similar models out in the Arizona salvage yards.  The USN 
also
made some some use of USAAF SCR-522 VHF sets, SCR-269 or AN/ARN-7 ADF 
sets, and
RC-103 with AN/ARN-5 ILS sets.  All with good reason, since (excepting 
the
SCR-287) these USAAF sets were better than their closest USN 
equivalents.  Even
the USAAF T-47A/ART-13 is a notch above the USN ATC or T-47/ART-13.  
The
AN/ARC-8 is very arguably the finest airborne HF set of WWII.  It had a 
long
service life.  I have part of an AN/ART-13 manual with a 1968 revision 
date on
it, and I flew in a USAF (not reserve!) aircraft in 1970 that still had 
the
AN/ARC-8.

>Second, it has a box with an SO-239 on it that appears to have been a
>field mod or something instead of a post military "improvement".  Was
>there a TO/??? on this modification?

I've got a similar USN-marked BC-348 with the same SO-239-in-a-box 
adaptation.
I don't think that it would have been part of an AN/ARC-8 installation. 
 It
wouldn't make sense to use coax between the BC-348 and the T-47A, which 
uses
wire-post antenna connections.  Maybe it was modified for use in some 
sort of
system like one whose nomenclature begins with "AN/MRC-" or something 
similar.

>Hmmm ... anyone have a mount and plug they don't want?

Ebay has been my best source for such items, by far.

73,
Mike / KK5F

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