Raft L'Egar Deux

[Spud Roscoe]

Good Evening

 

I just learned that the Quebec government is going to sponsor the rebuilding of the raft L’Egare Deux that crossed the Atlantic in 1956 and the Halifax Amateur Radio Club provided the communications on the first part of the voyage. This will be rebuilt at the Maritime Museum 300 miles north of Montreal and they hope to have it completed in 2016.

 

I promised them that if they rebuilt the raft I would do all I could to find a radio for it. Thanks to Fred VE1FA “the radio was a BC-654 transmitter-receiver, part of the SCR-284 radio equipment. They were first used in North Africa in 1942, then throughout the war by army, navy, and most of the Allied forces. It covered 3800-5800 KC, and put out about 17W of AM or 24W of CW. Pretty basic, but effective! They were run on batteries, generator, or hand-crank generator. I read somewhere that about 150,000 were made, and after the war you could buy a complete unit for $15-20!”

 

You can read all about this voyage in my history of the Halifax Amateur Radio Club VE1FO starting on page 143 in my web www.ve1bc.com

 

If anyone can help me find one of these radios I would be forever grateful.

 

73

Spud VE1BC

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