[Milsurplus] BC-1000 The Fun begins

[John J Mccarty]

The one I have which was "overhauled" at some point by the Italian Army had all
its variable adjustment caps open due to dirt and filth. Was able to clean it up
and get it working on 51.00Mc

73


John n9hrt

On 4/27/2011 10:30 AM, roy wildermuth wrote:
> The BC-1000 is a perfectly awful radio to work on. Reminds me of a cross
> between an SX-28 and a Philco Cathedral that has been left in the sun.
> LOTS-O-WAX and CRAMPED QUARTERS ! (Shouting Intentional as I take a coffee
> break from taking on this. )
> 
> Roy Wildermuth
> AWA Museum
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> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>wrote:
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>>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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