[Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx ... CORRECTED

[J. Forster]

The TCS is a WWII transmitter. No reed relays.

-John

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> Hi John,
>
> Yes. I think there was a burp there somewhere, too.
>
> The experiences everybody else is talking about are far counter to mine.
> It occurred to me that the relays you are all talking about may be
> substantially larger than the ones I used. Those were a step up from the
> little "reed" relays. I think TCS is some of the miltary surplus gear
> and the relays were probably heavy enough to take a direct hit from a
> medium machine gun or something. Like my RAK that was designed to live
> with heavy naval guns on a battleship. The difference in relays that are
> probably in those radios and the ones I used to key a radio (that
> already had a keying circuit) is probably night and day. Somebody else
> made me think about that when they said those relays were not good past
> something (did he say 20 WPM?) that I easily exceeded.
>
> And soon thereafter I switched my Ranger from Standby to transmit and
> the external antenna relay made one awful clunk! The light came on.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H
>
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