[The WS No19] RE: [Milsurplus] Re: British Army Radio During WWII

[WA5CAB@cs.com]

John & Group,

The TBX receiver is the only one of the three mentioned that cannot be 
operated from the hand-crank generator.  Nor can it be operated from the gas 
generator (which is literally one of the hand-crank generators driven by a gasoline 
engine).  But the BC-654 and BC-1306 can be.  I don't know what the actual 
field practice with the BC-654 was but if the PE-104 is left installed, it will 
operate from the 6 volt output of the generator, supplying receiver power and 
transmitter bias.  In the BC-1306 (and the later RT-77/GRC-9), with the power 
switch set to Standby, the receiver operates from the BA-48 dry battery and the 
transmitter is off.  With the switch at Send, the receiver as well as the 
transmitter is powered by the GN-57 or GN-58 (or GN-58-A). 


>No US field radio set in the power range of the WS19 relied only on hand
>crank or pedal generators... There were dry battery packs for the receiver
>sections (BC-654, BC-1306, TBX) and only the transmitters could be run on
>human power. Else there was either the vehicle battery or a gas generator.

73
Robert Downs
Houston
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