[TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

According to the Wikipedia article, the BC-610 was the Signal Corps version
of the HT-4, and over 25,000 of them were built during WW2 by "Hallicrafters
and other allied companies"

I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that in time of war, when the
Military needs so many radios -- now -- that manufacturing would be
subcontracted (by the military or the original contractor) to multiple
manufacturers.  Heck, that's why so few of the original WW2 Jeeps were built
by the designer, Willy's!

73

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Ken Brown
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:43 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 610 Has started shipping today


> B&W made the antenna tuner for the BC-610.  According to Jack Williamson
it was the BC-939.  But they didn't build any BC-610's.  
>
>
>   
Even so, I'm pretty sure that Hallicrafters was not the only 
manufacturer of the BC-610. The BC-610 is probably a Hallicrafters 
design, yet like many designs built for the military in those days, it 
may have been manufactured by more than just the company that originated 
the design. For instance the R-390 receiver is known to have been built 
by Collins, Motorola and at least one other company.

DE N6KB
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