Ok kids,
Got me a BC-799A (Howard) thanks to Steve, W2TRH via Nearfeast.
Has (as you know) two completely worthless bands. Below broadcast.
Looking at the downloaded manual, the BC-1004 is the same radio but has the bands.
This is single conversion, and the difference is in the coils of the two lowest bands.
I figure that I could take turns off the coils (go higher in freq) and put the two useless bands onto the BC band. Yes, I know the dial will not say the right thing, and that I may not get it dead bang where it would be stock. But with a sig gen, scope and or/grid dip meter, one ought to be able to get it to where it ought to be.
Better still if someone could measure the L of them.
Any comments?
Any happen to have spare BC-1004 or equivalent main dials?
Or a BC-1004 band switch knobber?
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PS. I do have a rust-o-bucket that I could pull coils from...