[Milsurplus] TCS

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Kees,

Refinishing the front panel (if it needs it) is a bit of a chore (although 
another list member is hopefully still working toward offering that service) but 
cleaning up the rest of it isn't too much of a chore.  I've used a water hose 
and the Houston outdoor oven in the past (pulled the meters first).

The receiver is pretty broad but it's better than a BC-454 and has better 
audio.  It does OK on 3885.  The sidewinders generally avoid that vicinity.  A 
good addition is the noise limiter kit that Collins built for them in '44 
(especially down here with all the thunderstorms).  I've had in mind for years 
building a product detector kit using the noise limiter kit (of which I have a 
stack).  Like most diode detectors, it does overload on strong CW, FSK and SSB 
signals if you don't ride herd on the RF gain control.

In a message dated 5/22/2004 11:17:01 PM Central Daylight Time, 
windy10605 at juno.com writes: 
> A filthy but complete TCS-13 transmitter followed me home from Belton and
> looks like an interesting unit to get back on the air. Question is just
> how useful is the matching receiver (don't have one) or do you need
> something a bit more selective to actually use today ? Are others using
> both the TCS Tx and Rx or a mix ? I also found out I had a 12V Dynamotor
> setup (2 dynamotors) for a TCS-14, a couple of the remote control boxes
> for a TCS-8, and a carbon mike. Guess that means I got to do something
> with it.

Robert Downs - Houston
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