[Milsurplus] BC-348-Q questions

[Michael Tauson]

Hi, Mike,

On 1/17/07, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, okay ... and the radios went with the airplanes.  This makes sense.

> 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.

R-23/ARC-5s were still in service in the 70s so I believe it.  Some
pretty good equipment came out of the war.  I wonder if the designers
had any idea their equipment would last so long.

> 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.

Good point.  Aside from maybe an ARC-38 as an auxiliary receiver, I
can't think of anything it would go with then.  Well, nothing that
goes in airplanes.

> Maybe it was modified for use in some sort of system like one whose
> nomenclature begins with "AN/MRC-" or something similar.

Could be.  Somewhere there is a document that may indicate the reason
for this.  I hope.

I've been watching eBay for a mount & plug (among other things) but,
so far, they come up at the wrong part of my pension cycle.  But
someone's bound to slip up and time it right sooner or later.

BEst regards,

Michael