[Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx

[David Stinson]

Disclaimer :  Strictly IMHO, YMMV, and other 
"take a breath before you start a fight" thingies etc.

Respectfully:
Please do not expect a WWII rig like the TCS
to meet "modern" standards for operation.
If one's goal is to work CW contest pile-ups or
earn DXCC,  a WWII radio is the wrong tool.
The TCS, like all historic military rigs, is never 
going to be a "performance" radio.  It's always 
going to be harder to use and less convenient 
than a Walmart, rubberstamp, cookie-cutter 
hot rod plastic banana 
"computer with an RF amplifier"
$6000 YeaComWood jumped-up CB rig.

If a person wants tight selectivity etc., 
operating WWII mil rigs isn't going to satisfy
and chopping them up to try and make 
them "perform" is not "operating mil-radios."
It is turning history into junk that will be quickly
discarded when it continues to "not perform."

Like driving a classic car (not a hacked and modded 
"franken-car"- a *real* classic car), 
 operating a mil-radio is about history, romance 
and personal challenge, not "performance."
If I want "easy," I'll whip-out the credit card and
buy a cheap no-effort plastic "DXCC-in-a-can" rig.

Like any personally challenging endeavor: 
if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing.

73 DE Dave AB5S