[Milsurplus] SCR-288

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
Subject: [Milsurplus] SCR-288

> Dave, isn't the thing about impossible to use on 40M? I don't see 
> how you
> can
> practically do it without for example a one transistor converter for 
> 40M
> down
> to around 2.5 Mc.

In fact, I just walked in the house after operating the set in 40.
I got ten states on 40 CW one weekend without trying hard.
The stock receiver will tune to about 7220.
The transmitter will easily double in the final,
and I follow with an antenna tuner for safety's sake.
Tests show no problems with out-of-band harmonics.
I've even made 40-meter AM contacts on 7160.
If the radio has been correctly refurbished, is in the proper case,
has the proper power supply and is allowed to warm-up
for 20 mins or so, drift isn't a problem even on 40.
It's simple to operate compared with so many other rigs,
like that lumbering brontosaurus of a radio, the BC-654.

> I don't recall that the manual has a number for the bags, does it?
Sure doesn't.  A saw a list somewhere on-line that said
it was BG-130 and BG-131, but who knows.

Somewhere out in California, there's an 80-year-old with
a huge pile of these bags in his barn, where they've sat with
the mice nesting in them for 60 years.  He's going to
"get around to" selling them for carrying fishing tackle.
When he passes away, his kids will throw them in the dumpster.
Don't laugh- I and a friend found the mother-lode, missing
cache of original BC-474 legs in the basement storage of
a college in San Antonio, Texas several years ago.
There where three or four big boxes of them.  IIRC I took home
about 20 sets and passed them out, traded them off and sold
some over the years- think I have one spare set left-
so the story above is possible.

> I also don't recall that the bags are marked with any number.
>One way to tell them from other mil canvas tho -
>the fastening leather straps are really dinky,...
You're way ahead of me if you've actually seen one ;-)

73 Dave AB5S