[MRCA] BC-654 Question

[Michael Hanz]

That's my impression as well.  The SO-239 is tilted - not acceptable 
workmanship for a depot level mod, never mind the failure to provide 
panel protection when grinding off the ground post.  (Which mystifies 
me...why grind it off in the first place?  It wasn't doing any harm to 
the poor little SO-239 brutally installed next to it. Perhaps the /feng 
shui/ was considered fatally impacted by remaining in place...)

- Mike  KC4TOS

On 8/30/2018 1:38 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Without any doubt it is just some ham's modification, and thus of no 
> technical or historical value.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: WW2RDO via MRCA
>     Sent: Aug 29, 2018 4:01 PM
>     To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
>     Subject: [MRCA] BC-654 Question
>
>     Hello Everybody,
>            I'm restoring a BC-654 that looks like it's been modified,
>     but I'm not sure who did the work.  The standard antenna and
>     ground wire insulated connectors have been very neatly removed
>     from the radio, and the antenna connector now accepts coaxial
>     cable ( the ground connector was neatly cut off and ground
>     smooth).  The set has inspection stampings from 1945.  The work
>     looks neat enough to have been done at depot.  Does anybody know
>     of the BC-654 being modified very late in World War Two, or maybe
>     perhaps for Korea in this fashion?  I want to find out before I
>     start the impossible task of looking for the original connectors. 
>     Thanks.
>

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