[Milsurplus] BC-654 in surplus ?

[Spike Dennis]

Maybe because they didn't need to be converted.
Just apply power & go. 

HF portable sets have always been in much shorter supply than ANY other variety of surplus radios. First, in comparison, they didn't make as many. Second, they were always the last to be parted with by the military. Third, always the first be be passed out under the counter to various other countries by our government. Like the TRC-10's(& maybe Pogo Sticks) that went to Angola & China, the BC-1306's & BC-611's that went to Thailand & Vietnam, or the extremely varied array of types that went to Israel, Cuba, South & Central America. Ask yourself when our European allies finally started dumping BC-1306's & GRC-9's!

KB0SFP



----- Original Message ----
From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 6:21:21 PM
Subject: [Milsurplus] BC-654 in surplus ?

Why didn't the BC-654 get more press in the 
conversion articles and books? With overall
production north of 54,000 sets, there must
have been a decent supply, or did the US
gov't and surplus handlers sell a whole lot of
these overseas?
Granted, the power output was not up to what
hams were getting out of more compact mobile
radios, but you would think that still, the one-
piece 80 meter radio would have some attractions?
Maybe surplus dealers held the price up? Come
to think of it, after the initial postwar surplus 
offerings in the late 1940s, i don't recall seeing
much presence of the BC-654 in later surplus
dealer ads.  -Hue Miller K7HUE
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