[Milsurplus] What do I have?

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Ed, I assume you are referring to the BC-645 IFF R/T unit?  
I think that being taken apart is perhaps the only thing the BC-645 was good for.  10's of thousands were build but never fielded.  What a waste of money and resources!  At least it was put to some good use as a teaching aid even if no one ever did anything with the parts.  
What is being overlooked is that the experience of taking something electronic apart is what gets one hooked on radio in general and military radio specifically.  How many of us, of a certain age when surplus was abundant, can say that doing something like this wasn't our introduction to the radio hobby?
For the last few years, the bits and pieces that I take to sell at hamfests and is left unsold by noon, I give away to kids aged from 8 to 15 years old or so with the explicit instructions to take it apart and have fun with it.
It is fun for me to see the kid's reaction and watch their eyes light up!  Of course, it is less work for me to load up and cart the stuff back home so I guess there is a selfish motive at work here too.Jim

      From: Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
 To: farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 9:03 PM
 Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] What do I have?
   
I have one of those IFF sets  that show up looking like  new all the time...  but  I also have one where  someone tried to make a  400 mc  cb set out of...  same thing   remove all components and  start over  with  stripped chassis....  I keep it just to  show it off!  Ed#  In a message dated 2/2/2017 7:23:02 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, farmer.rob.flory at gmail.com writes:
  It looks like if it was ever a Navy rig, was modified according to a plan that started with, "remove all components".

RF
   
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