[Milsurplus] RAM vs. BC-224, BC-349

[Joe Foley]

I have a Signal Corps Manual with a picture of a SCR-49 in it!

Joe




--- On Thu, 1/8/09, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Milsurplus] RAM vs. BC-224, BC-349
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 8:57 AM
> Dave wrote:
> 
> >I have photos of an RAM.... I feel lucky to have that
> ;-)
> >Clunky looking thing, by the way...
> 
> I believe that the RAM was delivered in 1936, and it may be
> one of the earliest superheterodyne receivers used in US
> military
> and naval aviation.  I wonder where the largest surviving
> part of
> one could be found today.
> 
> The Army Air Corps's BC-224-A appeared just a year
> later.  Although
> mechanically quite different from all following BC-224/348
> models,
> electrically it is basically the same.  It has always
> amazed me that
> such an outstanding and long-lived design was developed by
> 1937.
> 
> While we are talking about rarities, has any list member
> come across
> information about the BC-349 transmitter that was to be
> paired up with
> the BC-348 in the SCR-260?
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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