[Milsurplus] BC-348Q

[Hue Miller]

I am more partial to the older ones because: the crystal filter is more 
conventional
and (i think) better for overall selectivity with the crystal OUT, and also 
to (non
destructlively) improve; because of the ant. trimmer control, and because 
the
first ones don't have the pretty useless LF band. ( In fact, i don't think 
the
Army needed the LF band for the vast majority of its planes. If you want to
send a QTE request, you transmit the homing signal on LF, but there's
really no need to communicate with the ground station on LF, except maybe
for convenience, not having to change TU's . )

I'd like to canvas people's opinions of the BC-348 versus BC-312. I mean 
OPINIONS,
likes and dislikes, more than technical points, which we have kinda hashed 
over the
technical points here before. Altho technical likes and dislikes are not 
ruled out.

For example, i like the style-be-damned looks of the BC-312. The control 
positions
look like they were positioned at random. One of the manuals shows a 312 
with
a bunch of MWO rubber stamps numbers on the front panel; several of them are
off kilter, not even up. I like that, altho i don't know how to define that. 
Also purely
in the "likes looks" department, i have always thought the BC-348 looked 
less than
symmetric, with that RF tube cover over on the right side: big blank area. I 
like the
tuning feel better on the 348, less of a grainy feel than i've experienced 
on most of
the 312s.  The   312 can be a gut buster, tho.
-Hue Miller