[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] FS: SCR-506

[Ray Fantini]

Perhaps it’s some flaw in our personality or some inner desire to do one’s self-great harm by dealing with something so heavy and of relatively limited use, or maybe it’s because somehow decades ago when I read in the CQ Surplus Schematics Handbooks description “This (radio) is 400 Lbs. of nothing. Actually, it works pretty well but takes the patience of Job to sort out the millions of tuning units” but for some reason I always wanted a SCR-506
Before the adoption of VHF FM sets for vehicle use things like the SCR-506 and SCR-193 represented the state of the art in ground communications but I always assumed they were all quickly replaced by the BC-1000 (SCR-300) and SCR-508/610 series FM radios with the HF/AM stuff being relegated to things like training units or state side use.
The thing today is that all that first-generation VHF/FM equipment is just about useless today being the super wide bandwidth of the early radios along with things like the early FM sets did not make it up to 51.0 with radios like the SCR-610 (BC-659) covering 27 to 39 MHz, SCR-508 (20 to 27 MHz) and the SCR-300 (BC-1000) covering 40 to 48 MHz
Those old first-generation HF/AM sets like the SCR-506 have a value being you can legally net with other period radios like the BC-611, GRC-9, TBX and TCS sets of the period at events like Gilbert, Aberdeen and Dayton.
Just got to deal with the weight of the radio and having to provide the forty or so amps required to produce around twenty watts of AM and the very heavy weight of the transmitter.
It’s a good thing I don’t have that much money laying around in these days of the Covid economy or would be tempted to try to buy that huge heavy radio.

Ray F/KA3EKH



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