[Milsurplus] "Professionally Converted Radios"

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Perhaps less well known, a lot of WW-II surplus radios were also used on 
shrimp boats in the Gulf after the War.  I had a friend at LSU in the early 
60's whose father made a living after the War modifying them for that use.  
His comments about some of the comments in the Surplus Perversion Handbooks 
were mostly in Cajun French.  Which I understood only well enough to know that 
if I were one of the authors, I would definitely avoid South Louisiana 
after dark.

In a message dated 11/29/2009 12:25:54 AM Central Standard Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> I'm surprised no one mentioned the professionally repurposed radios
> 
> processed by the California boat radio companies. I'm thinking the ARB,
> 
> BC-375, and maybe a couple three ADFs.  Also "P.A.R." in Ballard/ Seattle,
> 
> modified the BC-456 into a power supply for a couple of their radios.
> 
> But it just occurred to me, oddly, that none of these conversions show
> 
> up advertised in "Pacific Fisherman" magazine of those years - a good 
> 
> source of equipment photos if you like that kind of thing.
> 
> I have a BC-348 modified by "Propagation Lab, University of Washington",
> 
> and had another modified by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS). Those
> 
> might also qualify as "professional conversions".  -Hue Miller

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