[Milsurplus] BC-348-Q being cheap

[Clare Owens]

I have this in my Gmail archive:

AirRadio AirRadio at dsl.pipex.com
12/14/11

to arc5
Re: BC-348G, never actually seen a G model.... However, I do have a DM-28 G
dynamotor very low serial (less than 10) made by Colonial, I will dig it out
and find the contract number which is on the plate. I will send you a
picture later today.
73 Max
M0GHQ/W8BX





On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Mike Morrow <kk5f at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Robert wrote:
>
> > ... if yours [BC-348-R] was built on a fiscal 1943 Order (between 01 July
> > 1942 and 30 June 1943), it is not even close to being the next to the
> last
> > one made.
>
> Not to mention the Soviet US-9 copies of the BC-348.  Those were built on
> into the 1960s.  They copied the R version, not the JNQ version.  The JNQ
> design departed much more radically from HKLR design than did the US-9.
>
> > From 1941 (calendar), the three groups MOP, KLR and JNQ were built more
> > or less concurrently by three contractors and one sub-contractor.
>
> Would it not be accurate to make these groupings EMOP (all CCT except O),
> HKLR (all CDL), and JNQ (all CWQ)?
>
> > Someone yesterday posted a Q model Order Number ending in DAY-DE. DAY
> means
> > Dayton (Signal Procurement District).
>
> Ken Corwin's (SK) BC-348 research (
> http://www.nj7p.info/Common/History/bc348.html )
> documents the last BC-348-Q order number as 928-DAY-DE.
>
> > All that I can think of for DE to mean is 45.
>
> I never would have thought of that correlation.
>
> BTW, a few years ago IIRC Max Cotton posted the order number from a DM-28-G
> he had.  This seems to be the concrete evidence for the rare BC-348-G.
> I can't find the copy I made of Max's info.  It was posted well after Ken
> had passed away and none of the many web copies of his BC-348 pages updated
> the missing order and manufacturer info for the G model, AFAIK.
>
> Does anyone recall that DM-28-G info?  I wonder if the G model was similar
> to the E model.  There appears to be no single manuals for a EGMOP group,
> so probably it's not.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
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