[Milsurplus] SCR-288 ( BC-474 ) Change 1, May 1944

[Hubert Miller]

Dave, i thought you just moved the cap from from switch contact to switch pole, so it didn't recharge every time you went to transmit. That isn't enuff ? My brother up in WA is selling off some of my stuff and will soon have a BC-474 with 2 pieces of canvas, the radio bag and one smaller bag, i think for the gen itself. The latter bag has a story: i spotted it in a surplus store in 1976 and thought "Hmm...that ought to belong to something of interest". I only figured out last year it was SCR-288. The unobtainium radio bag itself, was unfortunately very moldy and my brother washed it in, i think, with Boraxo, if i'm not mistaken, which kills the mold but doesn't leave you with a linen white canvas. Unfortunately the bag fasten straps are leather of a wimpy narrow Boy Scout summer camp style, wimpy in the same fashion the cabinet hardware for the Swedish Set is, and the leather straps disintegrated. I told him to retain the pieces so the next owner can have these made by some leather craftsperson. My guess is the bag was a nice size and format for hiking and that's where they went. Then when the wimpy straps broke apart and the bag got dirty, end of story for the bag. I bought the set off Ebay about 2 decades ago and the proceedings still make me wonder. Seller informed me he had the gen also in bags but it sold to another, while i saw no hair nor hide of that listing. My impression was, kind of flakey  but so be it. I paid good money for it; as you can imagine, there was competition for it  as it seems a lot of people like this bite-size, Boy Sprouts - like toy radio.
I still have one pretty nice BC-474 here in Oregon and then my brother has the more complete one, pretty nice he sez, up in WA. Oh, i forgot that nice and intriguing "suitcase conversion" BC-474 i picked up this summer, which photo i posted here recently.
IF the set covered 40 without alignment trick i would be in love with it, but 80 band just does not interest me. So that means my interest in  WW2 "combat tactical" equipment, that is, <6 MHz, has ebbed in favor of skywave equipment.
-Hue Miller



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