[Milsurplus] Re:TBY

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Tue Nov 15 09:41:37 EST 2005


In case anyone's forgotten, the CLG-20206 Vibrator Power Supply (115 VAC/VDC) 
was made for merchant shipping use.  And there is an antenna adaptor for the 
TBY that has an SO-239 to allow connection to an external antenna.  I don't 
think anyone has guessed what antenna was used, though. 

In a message dated 11/15/2005 5:31:21 AM Central Standard Time, 
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
> >Found an interesting tidbit on TBY application.  It is mentioned as
> >emergency alternative to TBS in this report of PT-109 loss.
> 
> Thank you, Robert!
> Like the documentation we've found on their use
> in Atlantic convoys, it's also stated the TBY
> was used as an "interphone" between boats:
> 
> "...... Lt. Brantinghams' boats were further subdivided into two 
> sections; PT 159, radar equipped, operating with PT 157, while PT 162, 
> under the command of Lt.(jg) J. R. Lowrey, was the lead boat of the 
> second section with PT 109 following. PTs 159 and 162 both carried TBYs 
> for inter-boat communications. Instructions were issued to Lt.(jg) Jack 
> Kennedy, captain of PT 109, to follow closely on PT 162's starboard 
> quarter, which would keep in touch with the radar equipped PT 159 by 
> TBY. [Portable radio equipment of low power used as emergency for TBS.]"
> 
> I have a feeling we're going to find out that the TBY,
> like the BC-375, got an undeserved bad reputation
> from hams who didn't know how to handle them.
> The people in charge of providing communications for
> all these diverse applications weren't stupid.
> If they installed TBYs in so many places,
> it was because they worked reliably.

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