[Milsurplus] TBS question

[Bob Wilder]

Just to add a comment.... As Hue stated, the TDE was used on DE's, which is true, but
also most of the LST's also had a TDE as their primary MF/HF transmitter with the TCS
as the backup transmitter  All of the LST-1 class ships used the TDE.  Many of the LST's
also had a TBS mounted on the bridge for use when in convoy.

Bob, AF2HD/AFA2HD
LST-325 Radio Room Restoration Project



At 09:00 PM 9/13/2003 -0700, Hue Miller wrote:


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>> Jack,
>> 
>> I have nothing to support this but I've always assumed that the TBS 
>> nomenclature was assigned like any other and the fact that it matched the acroynm was 
>> coincidental.  Or perhaps that the nomenclature led to the acronym.
>>> 73
>> Robert Downs - Houston
>
>> scr287@sbcglobal.net writes: 
>> > I was just wondering if the acronym TBS (talk between ships) is related to 
>> > the actual
>> > radio set designated TBS.  Or did the acronym refer to any radio set being 
>> > used for
>> > close range intership communication?
>
>-Yes, the "Talk Between Ships" clearly intended the TBS reference,
>because this term was not applied to TCS, MQ, TBY, and other 
>HF and VHF equipment used in the ship-to-ship voice role.  AFAIK.
>
>In this case, i am sure the name arose from the acronym, in the same
>way "Angry Nine" arose from AN/GRC-9 and "Antrac" from AN/TRC-1.
>
>I was doing to say there might have been a factor of choice involved
>in assigning nomenclature, but on thinking of RAT or RAX or DAG,
>i'd say, it doesn't seem so. It seems they just didn't  get around to using
>CRAP or DOG.
>There is only one other Navy example somewhat similar to the TBS, 
>that i know of, and that's in GE's "Men and Volts at War" ( 1946 ? ).
>It mentions that GE built the TDE, which was mainly intended for
>Destroyer Escorts. ( DE class vessels. ) I dunno if that claim of its
>main purpose is true.
>Hue Miller
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