[Milsurplus] TBY on Saipan '44 ?

[Mike Morrow]

Robert wrote:

>Although I would agree that I'd stop short of calling the TBX junk...

Maybe I'm being too hard on the TBX and the MAB gear.

The TBX units are all of impressive mechanical construction, and electrically a lot of functionality was gotten from the single tube 837 phone transmitter in the early TBX.  But the receiver lacks an RF stage.  Even the ersatz SCR-288 (BC-474), about the same size and weight as the TBX, seems like a more modern set than the TBX.   

I have only the RT units of the TBX-2, -4a, and partially hacked -8.  The SCR-288, SCR-284, and SCR-694 just seem like significantly better radios.

Mike / KK5F