[BoatAnchors] RE: [MilSurplus] BC 640 trnasmitter questions some bc-639 and need some help HELP!!

[ed sharpe]

yes that is the way it was at Luke afb also!

the rack  was serial number 2 on the tag on the actual rack. Gosh I would
love to see that here in the museum some day! it is hopefully out there
somewhere!

ed!
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <dschearer at enter.net>
To: "Craig McCartney" <craigmc at pacbell.net>; "ed sharpe"
<esharpe at uswest.net>; <milsurplus at qth.net>
Cc: "Old Tube Radios" <boatanchors at theporch.com>;
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Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BoatAnchors] RE: [MilSurplus] BC 640 trnasmitter questions
some bc-639 and need some help HELP!!


> The ones I saw at a remote transmitter/receiver site were green in color
and
> located in a couple of 6 foot racks.
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig McCartney" <craigmc at pacbell.net>
> To: "ed sharpe" <esharpe at uswest.net>; <milsurplus at qth.net>
> Cc: "Old Tube Radios" <boatanchors at theporch.com>;
> <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>; <boatanchors at qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 12:16 PM
> Subject: [BoatAnchors] RE: [MilSurplus] BC 640 trnasmitter questions some
> bc-639 and need some help HELP!!
>
>
> > My feeble memory says that the BC-640 I worked on at an Air Force Base
in
> > Europe was dark in color - either black wrinkle or close to St. James
> Gray.
> > However, that was 35 years ago.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-milsurplus at qth.net [mailto:owner-milsurplus at qth.net]On
> > Behalf Of ed sharpe
> > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 7:32 PM
> > To: milsurplus at qth.net
> > Cc: Old Tube Radios; BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV; boatanchors at qth.net
> > Subject: [MilSurplus] BC 640 trnasmitter questions some bc-639 and need
> > some help HELP!!
> >
> >
> > Greetings  from the museum!
> >  went for a merry romp in mesa az  at the hamfest this morning! Was
great
> to
> > met a few of the listserv folks in person that had not met
> before....Thanks
> > to those that  heaped stuff on us to add to the reference library!
> >
> >  Ok now for the questions........Got a BC- 640 that is BROWN rather than
> > green.... this was painted over on the panels, however  when inspecting
> the
> > rack the rack appears to be brown over primer coat.
> >
> > Why is it brown? Is there significance to this?  It was really kind of
> > interesting, the fellow I got it from had some spare modules ( nice
green
> > one) on the table and a picture of the transmitter hanging up.... I
> thought
> > the transmitter looked odd but assumed it was the color balance on the
> shot
> > or the printing.. but... it really was that color! (surprise!)
> >
> > the nice part of this deal  was it was delivered to the museum! now here
> is
> > the   thought to ponder....
> > if the brown has signafance we should leave it brown for the display,
> > otherwise repaint it green as the one was knew as a child and the one I
> > worked on  at Luke AFB.
> >
> >
> > next color enigma:
> >
> > A GREY  BC-639 Receiver!  it says on the tags... one  us signal corps
the
> > other...... REFURBISHED BY US NAVY! ( I am sure part of the referb was
to
> > color it like a battleship!)
> >
> > any notes on  when and why etc etc etc?
> >
> > There is also one of the spare rack units for the BC 640 that is.......
> > BLUE!  and appears to have been all it's life!
> > If anyone can shed any light on this  fill us in!
> >
> > also, since we are now apparently having a 640 and 639 display we are
> > looking for pictures of these things in action, anything related to them
> in
> > the way of personal  stories to add to the website whatever and whatever
> if
> > it is 640 and 639 related!
> >
> > thanks Ed '640 thumper' Sharpe  archivist for smecc
> >
> >
> >
> >
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