[MRCA] BC 620 and SCR 508

[Robert Downs]

I would classify the BC-684 as rare and the BC-683 as scarce.  Over the past 50+ years, I've only had two of the former and maybe 6 or 7 of the latter.  But 5x to 19X of the 603 and 604.  

The simplest way to convert a BC-620 to operate on 10 meters would be to swap the front panel from the 620 onto a working 659.  Swapping the chassis wouldn't work because the antenna trimmers aren't in the same location.

Robert Downs

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From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mkdorney via MRCA
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 5:44 PM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] BC 620 and SCR 508

The biggest offenders in actually using these two radios are more centered around organized clubs with Armor more than anything else. Now the BC-659 I might understand: with it�s built in speaker, there is no way it�s going to pass for the Infantry/ Armor BC620. But the SCR 508 and SCR 608 are identical twins- only the frequencies each are set to use is different. Only thing I could see that would effect anything would be availability. There simply may not be a lot of SCR-608 sets around anymore because they were used, not only by different militaries around the world, but also by Hams back in the day. Hence my question about maybe modifying the sets that are still around in numbers,  the BC -620 and SCR-508, to make these sets useful again in the radio hobby. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO


Robert Downs


-----Original Message-----
From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mkdorney via MRCA
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 5:44 PM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [MRCA] BC 620 and SCR 508

The biggest offenders in actually using these two radios are more centered around organized clubs with Armor more than anything else. Now the BC-659 I might understand: with it�s built in speaker, there is no way it�s going to pass for the Infantry/ Armor BC620. But the SCR 508 and SCR 608 are identical twins- only the frequencies each are set to use is different. Only thing I could see that would effect anything would be availability. There simply may not be a lot of SCR-608 sets around anymore because they were used, not only by different militaries around the world, but also by Hams back in the day. Hence my question about maybe modifying the sets that are still around in numbers,  the BC -620 and SCR-508, to make these sets useful again in the radio hobby. 

Mark D. 
WW2RDO

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