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84: 36: 72:) was the transmitter in the AN/ARC-8 system. They were also used in some ground and mobile installations such as the AN/MRC-20. The BC-348 series ran through several variations during its long production history, which included the BC-224. More than 100,000 of these receivers were produced, 80 percent by Belmont Radio and Wells-Gardner and the balance by 145: 44: 135:
The AN/ARC-8 system was still in service in older USAF aircraft in the early 1970s. At that time, military surplus dealers near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, had stacks of the BC-348, that had been removed from aircraft, for sale to the public.
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band and compress the 1.5-18 MHz coverage into the remaining five bands. This modified design became the BC-224-E and the BC-348-E. The 200–500 kHz and 1.5-18 MHz tuning range remained constant for subsequent production of all models.
64:, BC-348 radio receivers were easy to operate and reliable. Designed as LF/MF/HF receivers for use in larger aircraft (B-17, B-24, B-25, B-26, B-29, C-47, etc.), they were initially paired with a BC-375 transmitter in the 282:
U.S. Air Force Technical Order 12R2-3BC348-2, revised 15 April 1957; was AN 16-40BC-348-3, 21 June 1948; was AN 08-10-112, 17 July 1943, revised 18 December 1943, revised 30 July 1945;
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The BC-348 is the 28 vdc powered version of the 14 vdc powered BC-224. The first version, the BC-224-A, was produced in 1936. Installed in almost all USAAF (and some
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Instruction Book for Radio Receiver BC-224-A manufactured by RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., Camden, N.J., U.S.A., Order No. SC-132373
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U.S. Air Force Technical Order 12R2-3BC-112, revised 15 April 1957; was AN 16-40BC224-2, 20 July 1945, revised 11 May 1948;
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Instruction Book for Operation and Maintenance of Radio Receiver BC-348-E Radio Receiver BC-348-M Radio Receiver BC-348-P
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Handbook Maintenance Instructions Radio Receivers BC-224-F BC-224-K BC-348-H BC-348-K BC-348-L BC-348-R
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system. Late in World War II, the AN/ARR-11 (BC-348) was the receiver and the AN/ART-13A (
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Wilson, John (May 2001). "Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters and the BC-348".
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Handbook Maintenance Instructions Radio Receivers BC-348-J BC-348-N BC-348-Q
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Vintage & Military Amateur Radio Society Technical Information Service
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The BC-224-A, -B, -C, and -D, and the BC-348-B, and -C, tuned 1.5-18
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U. S. Army Signal Corps Technical Order No. 08-10-24, 12 June 1936,
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Army Air Forces Technical Order No. 08-10-119, December 15, 1942;
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following War II, by the Russian Vefon Works and labeled
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BC-348 receivers were copied and manufactured by the
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communications receiver
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Korean War
ART-13
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УС-9
Enola Gay
B-29 Superfortress
bomber
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atomic bomb
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