[Milsurplus] BC-348 coaxial input? ... plus shipping to Hawaii

Fri Jun 17 15:38:44 EDT 2011

Just a foot note to Michael's narrative.

I have had no trouble with shipping items to him from central Ontario,
Canada. So lets get with the program:))

$-------&
Moe Fretz
Collection and Preservation
Canadian Tube Radios, Communication Equipment, Vintage Ham gear and Military
Radios.
Hallicrafters, RCA, National, Hammarlund and Racal.

www.radiopreservationguy.com

Don't part them out ---- Restore them.

Cambridge
Ontario Canada

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Kludge <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Morrow
> > Michael wrote of the coax-fed BC-348:
> >>This certainly beats one thought that wandered through my head, that
> being
> >>that it was occasionally used with the AN/ARC-38 (just plain, not the -A
> >>version) in place of the R-648/ARR-41 when the latter wasn't available
> for
> >>whatever reason.
> > I suspect that some of those AN/MRC-?? mobile installations that had an
> AN/ARC-8
> > as part, along with other dyno-powered sets, sometimes utilized coax
> cable
> > to reduce local noise pick-up.  IIRC, the R-589/MRC-20 receiver (modified
> BC-348)
> > has coax feed.  It's likely that the USN used a few of these USAF set-ups
> > somewhere sometime.
>
> I thought the R-589 was a modified BC-312 but I'm probably wrong on that.
>  I
> do wrong quite well, you know.  :-)
>
> > But IMHO, one of the myths that needs to be discredited is that which
> claims use
> > of the AN/ARR-41 in place of the AN/ARR-11 (BC-348), or vice versa.
>
> *chuckling* ... As I said, "But that was probably just the voices brought
> on
> by the meds talking.  :-D"  :-D
>
> Anyway, I agree.  While field expedients do happen, I believe the intent
> was
> to go with the later AN/ARC-8 equipment the Navy inherited that had coax
> connectors that Mike H pointed out.  This leads me to wonder what the
> AAF/USAF did with them.
>
> While it's highly unlikely I'll ever get an ATC or AN/ART-13 Tx of any
> sort*, I'd like to mate my BC-348 up to something to put on the air as is.
> The BC-312 will probably get a homebrew Tx since I can't see myself
> acquiring a BC-223-* or BC-191 so I suspect the BC-348 will get the same.
>
> * Peeve time: A couple years ago, someone had some T-47s he was parting out
> and offered up parts for them.  While an entire unit would have been far
> preferable, I wanted the CFI & audio chasses, modulation transformer and
> variometer from one for my own projects.  The response was that it was no
> problem but now he would rather sell the entire chassis that had all that
> on
> it as a unit.  Okay, this isn't a problem and, yes, I know the shipping
> would be steep but it's worth it to me.  Then he decided that he really
> didn't want to ship "overseas" and deal with the paperwork and all.  What
> paperwork?  Customs forms.  Yep, customs forms.  Let's not worry about the
> fact that an intact transmitter can be made to fit postal regulations for
> domestic shipping which he also didn't believe (remove the CFI and audio
> chasses to drop the weight and ship them separately), he wasn't going to
> ship it to "a foreign country."
>
> Let me straighten a few things a out about shipping here to the real
> sunshine state. (*evil gryn*)  First off, Hawaii has been a state since 16
> August, 1959 - give or take a bit plus the attitudes of a few local groups
> who haven't figured out that neither the kingdom nor the republic exists
> anymore.  With that, USPS parcel post and UPS & FedEx ground all come here.
> The same 70 pound weight limits apply.
>
> Parcel Post takes longer; figure on about a month average with a week of
> that being ocean transit and more time being on Matson's docks either at
> the
> Port of Los Angeles or Port of Honolulu (Pier 51 on Sand Island) where they
> have to wait their turn being loaded and then dug out of the stacks 'n
> stacks of containers respectively.
>
> On the other hand, Priority often arrives faster than UPS or FedEx 2nd day
> (which is really 3rd day) which tends to upset folks who insist on shipping
> UPS 2nd day to Hawaii because it's "faster".  Priority Flat Rate Boxes are
> the optimal means of shipping here but, as has been pointed out to me, not
> everything fits an FRB.  Some things will if you stomp on them real hard
> but
> that seems not to fit the ideal scenario. :-)
>
> The bottom line is that, except for Priority FRBs, shipping here can be
> frightfully expensive and I'm well aware of that.  It's part of the price
> of
> living here.  If I'm allowed time to insert the shipping cost into my next
> month's (or the month after that) budget, I'm not too awfully concerned
> about it for items I really do want and *none* of them exceed USPS regs as
> to size and weight with the possible exception of a BC-191/-375 carcass or
> two, and I think even they can be squeezed in under the size restrictions.
> Some exceed the 70 pound limit as is but subchasses or subassemblies can be
> removed to bring them to or under the limit.
>
> It's all really simple.  Really, it is.
>
> [/rant mode]
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG ex-K3MXO, ex-KN3MXO, WPE3ARS, BL01xh ex-Mensa A&P PP BGI
> Share and Enjoy!
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> Hiki Nô!
>
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