[Boatanchors] Re: [Milsurplus] Comparison of Navy vs Army Air Corps equipment

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When i was a k'novice back in 58, i used a TCS transmitter with a BC-779 
receiver.  These came via MARS.  No, not that mars but it probably 
sounded that far away.  Anyway, it was fun to use that.  I had a long 
wire out that was fed by a single wire out through a crack in the garage 
and the wire was strung out about 10 ft above ground and was about 60-80 
ft long.  Who knew?  I tuned the TCS for max antenna current on the 
meter.  Wonder what all frequencies i was heard on?  Worked the east 
coast on 40 meters around 1 am in the morning on one occasion.  Damn, it 
was cold out there in the middle of the winter.  No heat but i had lots 
of BA stuff around me to take the chill off, a little bit anyway.  NO 
xtals for the TCS either so had to take the chance no one would question 
my ability to change frequencies easily.  Only got caught one time. 
What fun!

Larry
W0OGH


Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:

> On 2 Jul 2006 at 16:30, Bob W7AVK wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ken - Good run down. Wasn't the TCS keyed by relay and as such made a
>>very slow speed and poor CW transmitter / receiver combination?
> 
> 
> Yes. I was thinking of mentioning that I don't remember many TCSs 
> being used on CW, but almost all the ARC-5 transmitters I remember 
> were...but they all, without exception, had been "modified" for cathode 
> keying.
> 
> Ken W7EKB
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