[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 258, Issue 63 Ray Fantini BC 348

Wed Oct 22 15:00:39 EDT 2025

 RayI have several BC 348 that I've work on and currently work on BC 348 H model with everything original to include the Dynamotor. I'm in the process of recapping it but I have issue with the BFO, it is working but has alot audio distortion out to the speaker. Audio and IF are good and its sounds great on AM just on sideband its rough. My 348 Q sounds great on sideband and I have a BC 312 which also sounds good on sideband using the BFO I've changed the cap in the oscillator can but no change. Got any Ideas Mike W1ZFB    On Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 02:02:02 PM EDT, milsurplus-request at mailman.qth.net <milsurplus-request at mailman.qth.net> wrote:   

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Today's Topics:

  1. NCB Attack Net. (Charlie L.)
  2. BC-342 / 344  vs  BC-348 and the GRR-5 too! (Ray Fantini)

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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:00:51 -0400
From: "Charlie L." <mjcal79 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [Milsurplus] NCB Attack Net.
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Did ABC officially get changed to NCB?

Charlie in NC
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From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
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Subject: [Milsurplus] BC-342 / 344  vs  BC-348 and the GRR-5 too!
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Cannot make intelligent speculation on production numbers but being the BC-342/312 and its evil twin sister the 314 had to be produced in equal or higher numbers being it was the stock receiver with a number of vehicular mounted sets and field use sets for ground communications for a long time.
I can say for a fact that in the past several years I have had many people express interest and want to buy BC-348 receivers and no one want BC-342/312 receivers.  I can get $100 to $200 for a clean front panel working BC-348 receiver and would have to work to get $100 for the 342 if at all.

Attached is a picture of a bunch of BC-348 receivers going acrost the bench.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net <milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-342 / 344 vs BC-348 and the GRR-5 too!

I had no idea the 348 was produced in such numbers. That explains why you ALWAYS see them on Ebay. ( I remember around 1981 in Seattle, at 'Amateur Radio Supply', a NIB unused BC-348 for $125. That was too rich for me then, but - - somebody bought it. )

If supply vs demand simply applies, the 342/ 344 should have been priced higher. It was not. So there are other factors. The front panel on the 348 is alu, so it's a lot easier to add controls, meter and so on. Some opinions are, it looks better too.

I seem to recall speaking with someone at G&G NYC long ago. The person said they were reimporting them from France and restoring HFO wiring from dual diversity to independent use. I think France used them into the 1960s. I spoke with G&G must have been, 1973. I ordered one 348 and one 342, but nothing, zero transpired and many months later i got a letter asking if i still wanted to place the order, which i did not. Perhaps this was the, or a, period when the owner was out ill.

About this time i got an ARR-15, which was an overlaul and came in a large cardboard barrel. It had been a MARS giveaway. Unfortunately, i semi hacked it. I was pretty ignorant. Still am, i guess, but about different areas now, like eschatology.

I had one of the France BC-342. Was noteworthy because a front panel marking altho English, was misspelled "DIAL LINGHT".  I recall seeing surplus 342 but not 348 offered in French radio magazines from early 1970s.

The latest 348 manual i have is TM 11-6920, 1955, and it's just the J, N, P manual reprinted.

The 342 was certainly used in Korea War and i'm sure i have a photo or 2.

I did not set out at all to gather 348s but i have the BC-224-A and also an R-849 which is K.W. and has the squelch box on top for K.W. radio jeep use with ART-13.

I prefer the early no - LF band models. The LF band is useless to me and i like the slightly better bandspread.

Steve Bartkowski many years ago told me he saw a 348 where the LF band had been rewound to tune our AM broadcast band. I don't understand how that could be, without some screeching mess happening.
-Hue Miller

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