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Sherry's Boat Anchors

This page is under construction - and probably will be for a long time... . I grew up in rural Mississippi - where radio was still not that common - and we children were not encouraged to listen to that "racket". When Randy and I got married - I discovered not only the "world" of popular music - but literally an entire world via short wave. As a young Navy wife - I sometimes had a lot of time on my hands around our apartment. Randy had brought home this big ugly black box like it was some treasure chest - and proudly parked it in a most prominent place in the middle of the living room. It didn't even work. He explained that it was a really good radio - that it was made for an air plane - so it needed some "things"-- something about you couldn't just "plug it in". He spent the weekend lashing together these "things" with wires sticking out everywhere - he put this thing here - that wire there- and suddenly - it did work. This ugly black box could play some local stuff - just about as well as the car radio, but not quite - as it "couldn't" tune the whole AM band. But then he turned some switches and dials - and magic started coming out of that speaker. This was my introduction to Short Wave, and the world of radio. That first BC-348 served us well - until we replaced it a couple of years later with some better sets. But since then the 348 has always had a special place in my heart... it was my first. I now have quite a few radios - some larger, smaller, etc. - but there is always a BC-348 among them. The one I have now started out as a basket case - and being completely re-wired, repainted, etc. is now one of the best of the collection. It has a built-in AC power supply - built on an old dynamotor mount. But I also have a complete dynamotor for it - so that it could be returned to completely original if desired.

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