[Milsurplus] Radio id tags

[Jim Whartenby]

The original question asked about military and commercial radios.  What about a 51J-4 that has the S/N ink stamped on the back of the chassis?
Jim


--- On Tue, 5/5/09, WA5CAB at cs.com <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

> From: WA5CAB at cs.com <WA5CAB at cs.com>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Radio id tags
> To: telegrapher at att.net, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 5:22 PM
> The serial number block should always be left blank as you
> certain don't 
> want all of them with the same serial number.  In this
> case, I would 
> definitely leave the Order Number block blank for stamping
> as well.  
> 
> As an aside, although the Signal Corps had Contracts with
> vendors, they 
> were relatively broad long-lived things that were not
> equipment model or 
> quantity specific.  The alphanumeric strings printed or
> sometimes stamped on the 
> equipment name plates are Order Numbers.
> 
> On the production changes referenced by Order Number in the
> changes to the 
> TM, I don't recall ever seeing reference to any
> MWO's for doing the same 
> thing to earlier production.  So you are probably safe,
> unless something about 
> the workmanship makes it likely it was an after the fact
> modification, in 
> assuming that if your receiver has all the mods mentioned
> as having been done 
> on a specific Order that your receiver is that Order or
> later.  In fact, I 
> would be inclined to assume it was made on that specific
> Order absent any 
> clues to the contrary as I have seen cases (none that I
> know of with the R-388) 
> where earlier and later models were the same and one in the
> middle was 
> different.
> 
> In a message dated 5/5/2009 5:00:17 PM Central Daylight
> Time, 
> telegrapher at att.net writes: 
> > If you could have a tag made for your 388 or 51J-()
> receiver, would you 
> > want a serial number stamped on it or just have that
> space left blank?
> > 
> > What about a contract number?  Any one in particular
> or?  It may or may 
> > not happen but some census numbers would help.  I need
> one for my 388 but 
> > what would be appropriate.  How could one tell exactly
> which contract number a 
> > radio is built under?  Mine has several of the mods
> mentioned in the book 
> > so does it make it a latest contractor model or one of
> the earlier ones 
> > that have been upgraded, or did they do that?  And
> what contract numbers or 
> > model numbers would have had the mods applied to?
> > 
> > Larry
> > W0OGH
> 
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