[Milsurplus] Holiday Puzzle

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

OK.  I never looked up the SIG STK NR(s).  Maybe you could order it either 
way.

In a message dated 12/27/2009 3:38:33 PM Central Standard Time, 
mmab at cox.net writes: 
> My adapter kit came with the complete bottom cover with phone jack only, 
> no mic jack.  I installed it myself.  No drilling, templates or anything 
> like that.  I just removed the old bottom cover and installed the thick one 
> in its place.  There are steps detailed in the manual for the drilling and 
> mounting that you mention, but it had a Note to skip these steps if the jack 
> plate furnished in the kit is already mounted on a separate bottom cover. 
> I lucked out and got the whole enchilada already assembled.
> Mike W6MAB
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: WA5CAB at cs.com 
>   To: mmab at cox.net ; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
>   Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 1:14 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Holiday Puzzle
> 
> 
>   Mike,
> 
>   Actually, what was included in the kit (at least those I have or have 
> seen) wasn't a thick bottom cover, but a block or box used to modify the 
> existing thin one.  You removed the bottom cover from the radio being modified, 
> removed the battery contact place from the bottom cover, and using a 
> template supplied in the kit drilled five holes.  Four were for screws to attach 
> the jack box to the outside of the bottom cover.  The fifth, into which 
> you installed a rubber grommet, was for the wire from the jack.  It is 
> terminated in a right-angle mini-banana pin.  To route the receive audio to the 
> external jack, you unplugged the lead going to the earphone and plugged in 
> the lead coming from the jack.  And then closed and latched the bottom 
> cover.
> 
>   The late -F bottom cover will not work on a radio that does not have (in 
> place of the gray fiber one) the aluminum spacer with the flip-up terminal 
> board for the leads going to the internal microphone and earphone.  Or 
> more correctly, it will only work with external headset and microphone.  There 
> is no way to connect the internal ones through to the chassis.
> 
>   In a message dated 12/27/2009 1:55:49 PM Central Standard Time, 
> mmab at cox.net writes: 
> 
> 
>     I recall buying a Homing Modification Kit (MC-619) for my BC-611 from 
> J.J. 
>     Glass Co., back in the days of the big mil. surplus stores in downtown 
> Los 
>     Angeles. Besides the DF antenna (AN-190), Antenna Coupling Unit 
> (BC-1387), 
>     HS-30 earphones, extra earplugs and manual (TB 11-235-8), the kit 
> included a 
>     thick bottom cover (called a Jack Plate) to replace the cover on any 
> BC-611 
>     with a thin bottom cover. The manual says to discard the thin bottom 
> cover. 
>     The thick cover had a phone jack to allow the included phones to be 
> plugged 
>     in.
>     Mike W6MAB
> 

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