KF6PQT- The BC-342-N adventure!

It all started when I won a BC-342 receiver on ebay for twenty-seven bucks. The catch, and why it was so cheap, was that it was mandatory that I pick the item up, and that there was some extra "stuff" that came with it, and it ALL had to go as a bundle. SWEET! Where's the downside? ;)

So I was off to the Torrance airport to meet the guy who would take me over to where he helped volunteer at what will be an aircraft mechanic's museum. Turns out, the museaum's storage containers were located on an old NIKE missile site! (Site LA-57) Crazy! I'd read about these things long ago, but didn't thnk I'd ever run across such an early cold war relic. Nothing much to see but cool all the same. Lotsa cool old airplanes inside this airport, but what do I do, take crummy phone-cam pics of a defunct missile base!

Here's a Google-map aerial of the site, you can see the area they use for painting stuff, in reference to my phonecam pic. Storage isn't there yet... You can also see where Torrance Fire Dept. Uses half the site for training.

Ok, back to the radio (and airplane) junk!

HA! What am I gonna do with this? ;)

01/09/07 Update... on the far end of the tailgate, very last item... little power supply, THATS the one with the radium-vial toggle!

So this is a Collins 618M-1a VHF transceiver. Think some Collins nut would give me a wad of cash for it?

Misc generators, dynamotors...

This with the lid open is an R101/ARN-6. I have no idea what any of this weird stuff is, but I intend to find out, and find out what I can do with it. I assume anything thats got "ARN" means "aircraft radio navigation." That pair of receivers are Type CRV-46151... shortwave also!

Acorn tubes! RT-7/APN-1 (or was it ARN? cant read my writin'...)

The big honkin' thing is RT-178/ARC 27, Grey Navy thing is an AN/URR-35c... Is there anything to listen to from 220Mhz, to 420 Mhz??? Wanna buy it? ;) The other two are RT 220 b & c / ARN 22

RT 178