[Milsurplus] BC-650-A

[Ray Chase]

Well us few IFF collectors are still interested in filling in holes and 
blanks in our collections and missing data.  The early IFF field was a zoo, 
hard to keep track of who was changing what.
Ray
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Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-650-A


> Mo0re specifically it's part of Instrument Equipment IE-16 used to work on
> the Mark II.  I have an Operator's Manual on the Mk II and IE-16 somewhere
> but it's misfiled and I couldn't locate it tonight.
>
> Further on Mike's "not much in demand" comment, the few IFF collectors
> around probably already have everything and the aircraft restorers that 
> might
> become interested in any Mk II components are seldom interested in support
> equipment that wasn't installed in the aircraft.
>
> In a message dated 5/1/2010 10:21:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
> kk5f at earthlink.net writes:
>> >I  attended the MRCG  at San Luis Obispo this weekend and picked up an
>> odd
>> >little receiver.  It's marked BC-650-A and is a two channel receiver 
>> >that
>>
>> >uses 2 acorn tubes and two 1D8 GT tubes.
>>
>> It's a test receiver for the Mark II IFF system transponder SCR-535-A.
>> This
>> WWII IFF system was very quickly replaced by the Mark III (SCR-595-A and
>> ABK)
>> and Mark IIIG (SCR-695-A and ABF) system.  Mark II IFF components are 
>> thus
>> rare, but not much in demand either.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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> MVPA 9480
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