[Milsurplus] BC-348R

[Mike Morrow]

> Looks to me like yet another example of the superiority of the J,N and Q
> over there primitive counterpart.

It's not at all clear what leads you to that conclusion.

I have a NOS BC-348-P as part of my SCR-287-A because it comes closest to reflecting the tube technology of the BC-375-E (yet is still far ahead).

I have a used BC-348-R as part of my AN/ARC-8 because it comes closest to reflecting the elegant sophisticated design of my used T-47A/ART-13.

I have a NOS BC-348-Q with same-contract mount and original instruction book.  I use it for display only, to show what one of these sets looks like, just taken out of a newly-opened box.  Regardless of claims otherwise, its simplified design obviously was far less expensive to make, compared to the earlier model types.

There is ONE thing I like better about the Q over the R...the metal nomenclature plate that most R models lack.

The original BC-224 design dates from 1936.  It was a magnificent series of receivers.  The Soviet US-9 (Universal Superheterodyne) versions are said by some sources to have been made until 1987...for more than a half-century of use.
  
Mike / KK5F