[Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-245

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>you NEED to write about your experience there, you NEED to document this

May I second that motion?

Wayne
WB4OGM

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: Milsurplus <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Sep 1, 2017 6:45 pm
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [MRCA] SCR-245

Jeff - your father worked at, or owned G&G ???? Am I understanding this right ? 
In either case, you NEED to write about your experience there, you NEED to document this.  That I think would be a damn interesting story !
I think I was one of the last customers of G&G. It must have been around 1981, I bought the last BC-1209 ( p/o SCR-583 ), but I think that's all he said he had,
i may have been dumb enuff to decline the PS, but I don't recall.  I also bought some T-24 mics for the BC-222/322. And some headphone cushions. 

Earlier, I had written and asked about buying a BC-312 and a BC-348 . I'd spoken with a man at G&G and he said he was re-importing them from France, and I 
think I recall he said they were set up for diversity reception and he restored them to individual operation. Shipping rates must have been so much lower then ! 
Anyway there was no response. I don't actually recall if I had sent a check or had just indicated my intention to buy and asked for total. If I sent a check, it was 
never cashed. Some MONTHS later I received a letter from G&G asking if I still wanted the BC-312, and I declined at that time. I gather from what I'd read 
somewhere else that the proprietor had been off and on ill and thus the business was periodically closed.  
G&G had a pretty amazing stock at one time, if the catalog can be believed. Like a super selection of the Command Sets. I wonder however what happened to
some of the real oddball stuff like the RAY-1 receivers and the BC-645s. Also I wonder what was up with G&G apparently copying sections of the FAIR catalog
to use in their own. What was up with that ?
-Hue 

>ray and folks . 
i can remember as a kid working with my dad at g and g radio in new york city. he had hundreds of brand new crated bc223s. my dad got 2, one was ruined from hurricane sandy, the other my mom found when cleaning out the attic last year. the other half of the scr245, the bc312, my dad got working for me when i was 12 or 13.  with a 15 ft piece of wire in the basement I would listen to the top end of the BCB, 160m was dead due to loran, but i listened to uscg on 2670 and 75m am - wa1hyellr etc
i also found the dynamotor too!
the scr245 may have been in use in north africa in m3 lee and m4 shermans but by the time of sicily the scr508 was firmly in use
as to the scr506, that was used in the armored battalion commanders and xo's tanks for the regimental command net. also in those tanks was the 508. it was also used in m8 and m20 armored cars for the recon units. tank companies commanders and xos had the 508 which had 2 bc603 receivers, 1 tuned to the battalion net the other in the company net. early in the war only 2 out 4 tanks in a  tank platoon had the scr528 603/604 combo, the other 2 tanks had the scr538 with a 603, 605 interphone amp and no xmitter
jeff



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