SCR300 (BC-1000) military WWII radio - history and actual on-air demonstration
(If you want to skip the tech talk and jump to the actual on-air demonstration right away, go to 21:00)
This is the famous BC-1000 World-War 2 man pack radio in actual operation.
The BC-1000 was the transceiver part of the SCR300 Signal Corps radio installation. It was in service primarily with the US Army, and as such was used heavily during D-Day and beyond. Also the US Navy used these to communicate with troops on land. After the war, the BC-1000 saw action in Korea and many were built in license by other countries, to be used all the way into the Seventies, especially by the French military. The British had their own version of this radio called the WS-31 of which I will show another video later. The particular BC-1000 you see here in this video was used on the USS Cassin Young, a Fletcher-class destroyer that came into service in 1943. The radio you see here was manufactured in 1944.
I have searched the whole of YouTube to find an actual demonstration of a working, unmodified BC-1000 but wasn't able to find one. All I could find were modified radios with MP3 players built into them, or gutted with FRS radios built into them. That's not showing much respect for one of the great WWII icons. So as a tribute to the radio, the soldiers who used it, and the great engineers who designed it (and not to forget, the MANY Rosie the Riveter women who built it in the factories during the war effort), I give you here a working demonstration of an actual, unmodified BC-1000 WWII radio!
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This is the famous BC-1000 World-War 2 man pack radio in actual operation.
The BC-1000 was the transceiver part of the SCR300 Signal Corps radio installation. It was in service primarily with the US Army, and as such was used heavily during D-Day and beyond. Also the US Navy used these to communicate with troops on land. After the war, the BC-1000 saw action in Korea and many were built in license by other countries, to be used all the way into the Seventies, especially by the French military. The British had their own version of this radio called the WS-31 of which I will show another video later. The particular BC-1000 you see here in this video was used on the USS Cassin Young, a Fletcher-class destroyer that came into service in 1943. The radio you see here was manufactured in 1944.
I have searched the whole of YouTube to find an actual demonstration of a working, unmodified BC-1000 but wasn't able to find one. All I could find were modified radios with MP3 players built into them, or gutted with FRS radios built into them. That's not showing much respect for one of the great WWII icons. So as a tribute to the radio, the soldiers who used it, and the great engineers who designed it (and not to forget, the MANY Rosie the Riveter women who built it in the factories during the war effort), I give you here a working demonstration of an actual, unmodified BC-1000 WWII radio!
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