[Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx

[Geoff]

It might help if you actually related to your experience with the TCS 
instead of just the usual hot air....

For those that actually have experience they already realize that there are 
many military radios that work very well on the ham bands with no changes 
and at the other end of the choices there are those that make good landfill.

There are several military radios in my collection that get their turns to 
be used.

Carl
KM1H



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx


>
> 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
>
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