[Milsurplus] Of BC-611 Interest, maybe

[Hubert Miller]

I wanted to briefly see what SCR-536 radios are going for, and i see it's enough that i'm thinking about
hoarding mine a bit longer, being more cautious. But i discovered this interesting site, which  compares
the real thing with a 'What Price Glory' replica. Which does not see to be overpriced at all.
http://www.90thidpg.us/Equipment/Reviews/WPGBC611/index.html

Also there's a page-2 which recounts the author's effort to make the WPG talkie more realistic, compared
to the original.
http://www.90thidpg.us/Equipment/Reviews/WPGBC611/DeFarb.html

I wish now i had stocked up on more spare parts. I think Robert Downs is out of the businesss.

I have 2 of an earlier talkie which emulates a BC-611 but is plastic, CB channel, and ¾ size. I wanted to
draw the schematic and maybe convert freq but i must have run into something more pressing, cuz i set it
aside.

I recall maybe less than a decade ago a fellow was selling 2 BC-611 on Ebay, that he had "converted to solid
state". The receiver part, which i think i may have the plan docs for, was a piece of cake, using FETs. I somehow
missed getting the trans part of the process, either i was too late or the guy didn't release that. I suspect the trans
work was not the smartest conversion, i suspect it lowered output power by a magnitude maybe, i seem to
recollect 400 foot range, altho i would not bet money on this memory.  I wrote the fellow - a ham - to try to get
any insight on how he handled the trans conversion. No answer. I think you have to preserve the high resistance
high voltage basic circuit to keep the transmit power. If you have ideas on this, i would love to know your approach.
Tube purists: i have way too many families of tubes for my radios. Way too many, and they're continually suspect,
as far was wearing out. " T U B E " = "Temporarily Useful Bulbous Expedient".

OH yeah: a fellow with gradeschool years in Nederlands showed me once a BC-611 he had picked up out of a
roadside ditch after Arnhem. It had the antenna broken off - no quick change possible with this rig - and it had
a hand applied different shade of brown paint spiraling up around the thing. He had replaced the antenna and the thing looked perfect. I should have maybe stayed in touch with him.
-Hue Miller




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