[Milsurplus] [armyradios] A thought experiment.

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At 04:37 PM 2/24/2017, Hubert Miller kargo_cult at msn.com [armyradios] wrote:
>I have always liked the looks of the BC-654 and 
>BC-1306, but as you know, their frequency range is only slightly useful.
>But i always liked 40 meters more. More 
>long-range possibility. So i wondered, could these radios be moved to 40 meters
>I would NOT contemplate doing anything like this 
>to a BC-1209, TRC-2, TCH, etc.
>But BC-1306 and BC-654 are still out there in numbers.
>
>So – is this:  Immoral ? Amoral ? Pointless ? Go for it ?

Go for it.  The 1306 dial can be redone, but the 
654 dial is going to be a problem, being grooved metal.

>I do have a BC-654 that has the receiver scale 
>relabeled for down to 3000 kHz. I have not yet tried it out or looked
>into it to see how successful this effort was.