[Milsurplus] BC-348 series CORRECTION

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One of The Green Books, (The United States Army In WW-II), STATISTICS, 
dated 09 April, 1952, contains production figures on Signal equipment.  
SCR-274-N production was, according to a footnote, not reported.  Instead, the book 
shows production figures for the three receivers and four transmitters.  The 
highest receiver production is shown as BC-454 (-A and -B combined) 
161,875.  Low is BC-455 @ 145,848.  The high transmitter is BC-457 @ 145,926.  Low 
transmitter is BC-696 @ 40,620.  BC-456 is not listed.

On the BC-191, 224, 348 and 375, production figures are only given for the 
radio sets that they belonged to.  OK for BC-224 and 348 and mostly BC-375.  
But BC-191 production would have to be arrived at by summing the four sets 
that used them.  And similar sums for BC-312 and 342 (which I won't do 
here).

SCR-187 total production is 5790.  SCR-287 is 102,508.  So that roughly 
agrees to H's figure earlier today of 100,000 BC-348's.

However, the HF Command Sets aren't even particularly close to the set 
production record.  That belongs to the SCR-536 @ 206,753 followed by the radio 
receiver-transmitter set used in SCR-522, 542 and 624 @ 206,325.


In a message dated 06/27/2017 14:24:36 PM Central Daylight Time, 
Kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> One of the online texts states production something like 100,000. This 
> number would be exceeded only by the HF Command Sets models, I think. 
> For "general" training, such as CW practice, I am guessing the military 
> used less expensive radios, such as Halli S-20's or Echophones. In fact I 
> think I may have a photo of the Echophone being used that way.
> As for Cold War buyback, I think I have only seen ads seeking to buy VHF 
> and in HF air, only the ART-13 - not the BC-348, which I thought was odd.
> -H 
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
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