[Milsurplus] RCA BC-474

[Al Klase]

BTW, Michael Starke has a good page on these sets:  
http://www.qsl.net/pe1ngz/stories/story-scr288.html - Al

Hue Miller wrote:
>  
> There was a recent post about the early BC-474, the "Swedish contract 
> radio"  claimed by the
> US Army. I made visual contact with one example today. It is marked 
> "US Army" but "MI-8751"
> not BC-474. As the other fellow posted, the cabinet is thinner, less 
> robust for sure; the snap hasps
> are like on a child's toy toolbox compared to the robust snaps on the 
> BC-474. There were painted
> letters on the case, "COM SHO"  and "TMS". One odd thing i do not 
> understand is that the receiver
> has an added panel piece where the main headphone connector is, and 
> the transmitter has a
> similar panel overlay around where the mic and key sockets are.  Did 
> these added panel overlay
> pieces allow for a BC-474 configuration of these jacks that was not 
> employed on the original MI
> (RCA nomenclature) contract.  This is SN #42 from 1941.
> -Hue Miller
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