[Milsurplus] BC-1000 The Fun begins

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All of the Korean War and WW-II vintage FM sets are what now in unsecure 
communications equipment is considered wideband (the AN/PRC-77, and later 
versions of the AN/PRC-25 and RT-524, on the other hand, will do 100 KC).  
However, the deviation is adjustable or at least changable.  And part of the 
problem with the BC-1000 may be that the owner used a high output or amplified 
microphone instead of the original carbon or one with output levels matching 
it.

In a message dated 4/27/2011 7:32:09 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> Be warned! The BC-1000 is a difficult radio to get and keep working. 
> Don't know if it's due to the age of the radios or just a poor design to begin 
> with but of the several BC-1000 I have seen only about half have worked. 
> There is always at least one in the Cold War net at Dayton. The other thing 
> is they are very wide band, so much so that they tend to over deviate and 
> not net well with more modern radios like the VRC-12, PRC-68 or PRC-25 Don't 
> know what the deviation is set to but would not be surprised by it being in 
> excess of 40 kHz.
> Ray F.KA3EKH

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