[Boatanchors] Questions for TBX thru TBX-6 Owners

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I have TBX manuals on TBX, TBX-5 and TBX-8.  The TBX manual was printed by 
GE on a 1941 Contract with two early 1942 Supplement Contracts.  Ignoring 
the TBX-8 because it is a different radio, I am trying to pin down the radio's 
full Navy Type Number for models from TBX through TBX-6.  And to determine 
what model number(s) the early manual actually covers.  It's title is 
"Instruction Book GEI 16829 for TBX Series of Portable Radio Equipments.  Which 
could imply that it was intended to cover more than just the base TBX.  Plus 
in some places it refers to several of the alternate power supplies 
(alternate meaning anything but batteries for the receiver and hand crank generator 
for the transmitter) with a -1 and/or a -2 following the model letters (for 
example EF-1 and EF-2).

I would appreciate it if any TBX-(*) owner other than TBX-8 would send me 
either all of the radio nameplate information including serial number or a 
photo of the nameplate.  And if you have the time, the same for the nameplates 
on any accessory/battery boxes and any power sources (hand crank generator, 
rectifier supply, dynamotor supply, etc.).  According to a note in my 
database, I once had a radio that originally said TBX-4 and CG-43005-C but the 
"C" had been marked out and replaced with a "D".

Also, anyone who has a manual (that didn't come from me) please send the 
title page info, and how the radio is referred to throughout the manual and on 
the schematic.  As an example, in one place near the front of the TBX 
Series manual it refers to the radio as 43005-A.  Elsewhere and on the schematic, 
it is just 43005.  In the Preliminary TBX-5 manual that I have, in the text 
and on the original schematic it is just 43005 but on the revised schematic 
that accompanied a one-page supplement it is 43005-D.  

Robert Downs - Houston
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MVPA 9480