[Milsurplus] Michael's Navy BC-348

[David Stinson]

I think modifications done by the military users
are legitimate and historically significant and should stay.
I'd leave your BC-348's mil-installled mods.

On the "history of ham radio" side; while
there are many notable and significant exceptions,
like building a working SSB rig from a BC-453,
most of the ham "modifications" I've seen,
I would not want included in a history.  
I'd want them hidden under a rug.
The SCR-274N transmitter here that someone 
built into a 20-meter RTTY exciter is a wonder 
of engineering and craftsmanship but, frankly,
most mod jobs are a mess; 
born of parroting others mistakes.  The surplus
flood after the war greatly expanded ham radio
by providing affordable equipment at a time when
commercial radio makers had priced themselves 
out of existance, but it was more a matter of 
"quantity" than "quality."

One old coot's opinion.
D.S.