[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 262, Issue 47 Assistance

Wed Feb 25 05:32:09 EST 2026

 I have spoken N2AUG Richard and he told me he was not selling anything and appreciated me taking extra steps to reach him.  I’ve had four scammers attempting to sell me a radio and each one attached a first name to a callsign such as SteveN7XXX at gmail.com. Running the callsigns through the FCC data base found them legitimate and going to places like QRZ and running the call there appeared to be legit also. The only way I was able to validate that each was a scammer was to contact the local ham club close the ham’s callsign  and ask if someone knew the ham and get a phone nr or Email.Just thought I’d share my experience. MikeW1ZFB

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Today's Topics:

  1. Assistance (Mike Christie)
  2. The BC-1306 Question (Ray Fantini)
  3. Re: The BC-1306 Question (Hubert Miller)

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:10:54 +0000 (UTC)
From: Mike Christie <mzfb at aol.com>
To: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Milsurplus] Assistance
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I've had several? responses to ads I placed on several sites for a military radio. One of which I was able to prove was a scammer who hijack the ham call. Luckily I was able to reach the ham club president in city were this ham lived. He provide me with the phone Nr. of the Hijack ham who's callsign had been hijacked. Calling the phone nr. I was able to verify he was not the seller and that he had other hams tell him that someone was using his call in scamming operationsSo I have had another person N2AUG contact me who lives 48 Mill Rd Morris Plains NJ. Is there anyone here familiar with this ham N2AUG and would have a phone number?.?Thanks for your helpMikeW1ZFB??
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:59:51 +0000
From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
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Subject: [Milsurplus] The BC-1306 Question
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So, I have a BC-1306 transmitter in the shop that has an issue. The Tune to Max light wont light. Tried a couple of different bulbs and don't think that's the issue. The transmitter had a couple other small issues and did resolve them. I figure that I am getting around three to four watts in CW and maybe two watts into fifty Ohms on AM and the audio quality is good. But looking at the bulb socket can see that the center of the bulb is driven off the center tap of T131 the antenna tuning coil and do get plenty of RF Voltage at that point but the weird thing is I cannot see anything of C88 the 6 uuf capacitor that's on the ground side of the bulb (I 152), on the GRC-9 they return the cold side of the tuning bulb to a high DC line due to the possibility of flash over at the high voltage the circuit operates at but on the WW2 BC-1306 it appears to be just grounded thru a capacitor I cannot find? Any possibility I am missing something?
Also, the BC-1306 appears to want to see a 5,000 Ohm load on its output! At least that's what I think the manual is telling me. Figure that may do with it being used with such short antennas?

Ray F/KA3EKH

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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:30:39 +0000
From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] The BC-1306 Question
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I have not troubleshooted a BC-1306, but the wattage output you saw is seriously wrong.
That is a 2E22 final, right ?
I want to redraw the really confusing output network schematic. It's unnecessarily difficult
to see what's going on. But, this project will have to wait its turn.
Trivia: years ago, like 1990, when i bought a couple 1306s from a fellow in PA, he said they
at one time had a "BC-1306" CW network going. Apparently the thing just covers ( or covered )
part of the 80 meter CW band. Chuck Waite, the name just popped back into my head. I wrote
him a couple years ago for a few more tidbits of info about that net, but no answer.
Over the years i have had a couple TRC-2, the 1900 to 3400 kHz counterpart to the BC-1306,
the latter which was subsumed into the AN/TRC-2 equipment, but i let them go. Along with
the 2 varieties of the PP-39 ( ? is it ? ) of the receiver vibrator supply. You can't keep everything,
i keep telling myself. The antique radio club in Seattle, PSARA, is right now dealing with an estate
that is one real mess. Why leave a big headache for your survivors ? They will NOT thank you.
-Hue Miller
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