[Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-288 - MI-8751 - BC-474

Mon Oct 2 16:20:42 EDT 2017

It’s all antidotal but I have been doing this for a while now and have to say over the years have seen lots of radios like the DAV/MAB sets but feel that’s because they were never put in to use on a large scale and lots of stock remained after the war, god awful numbers of BC-611 handhelds so they had to be produced in huge numbers, several SCR-511 pogo stick radios and SCR-284 sets ( this is all field radios and excluding things like BC-312 receivers) but up until recently like the last five years have only started seeing the SCR-288 but have to assume that more than 1,500 were built.  The RCA AVR receiver also appears in aviation after the war for use in small airplanes. How is that related?

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: Al Klase [mailto:ark at ar88.net]
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2017 3:41 PM
To: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-288 - MI-8751 - BC-474

Good question, Ray,

According to the Green Books,  there was a authorized procurement of 1500 SCR-288.

(As  of 20 Dec 1941)
Neither contracting nor delivery was
progressing well. Some critical items for
which money had been allotted under the
fiscal year 1941 procurement program had
not been contracted for; in particular 1,500
SCR-288's, substitute short-range radio sets
for ground troops, who needed them badly,............

Was 1500 all there ever were?  I'm hoping we can puzzle this out by look at the serial numbers of the remaining sets.

Can you beat SN 594?

Al
On 10/2/2017 2:54 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
How many SCR-288 were ordered for use stateside for training at the start of the war? Huge amounts of material was used at the California, Arizona and Southern Nevada Desert training center for the first two years of the war and something like the SCR-288 appears to be an ideal training radio. All of the new modern VHF-FM equipment would only be available after 43 or 44 where the training operations were all in 42 and 43.
Would be interesting to see what was used for all the sate side North Africa training out in the US deserts, not just radios but vehicles, aircraft and everything else. Highly doubt that they trained with what was used looking at the early dates involved and what was in the procurement pipeline, at least at that point in the war.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net<mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Al Klase
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2017 10:35 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net<mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-288 - MI-8751 - BC-474

Make that Americal Division, a.k.a 23rd Infantry - Al
On 10/1/2017 10:26 PM, Al Klase wrote:
Gang,

Another MI-8751 "Swedish Set" recently surfaced in South Jersey.

(Picture deleted)

The owner states that his father brought it back from the South Pacific (WWII), and that he was in the "American Division" (?)  The set has since been pick up by another collector.

Anyway, these are among my favorite radios, and I've been obsessing.

I started a new webpage:  http://skywaves.ar88.net/mil/SCR-288/SCR-288.html

There's some material there that few have seen.

Here are my questions:

  1.  How many MI-8751's were built?
  2.  How may MI-8751's are in captivity?  Please report serial number and contract.
  3.  There are both MI-8751's and BC-474's with the same order number NO. 3022-NY-41.  Can someone explain the in's and out's of these numbers?
  4.  How many BC-474's were built?
  5.  Were all BC-474's built on ORDER NO. 3022-NY-41
  6.  I have a document titled "Preliminary Instructions for Portable Radio Equipment SCR-288" "Order No. 2586 Plila-42 Dated December 13941"

     *   Was this order likely just for for the manual?
     *   Is the number Phila-42 because Dec 1951 was in FY 1942
Regards,
Al

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Al Klase – N3FRQ

Jersey City, NJ

http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

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Jersey City, NJ

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