[Milsurplus] Comparison of Navy vs Army Air Corps equipment

Ed Zeranski ezeran at ezeran.cnc.net
Sun Jul 2 20:10:39 EDT 2006


On 2 Jul 2006 at 16:30, Bob W7AVK wrote:

>
> Ken - Good run down. Wasn't the TCS keyed by relay and as such made a
> very slow speed and poor CW transmitter / receiver combination?

	The hills were alive with..."The Sound of Relays"!!!!  I think the TCS
manual mentions 20wpm as the max reliable CW speed. The RX bandwidth is 9kc,
people have inserted Murata-Erie filters in the IF for better CW ops. TCS
radios were still being used in the Navy in the '60s so they had a long
operational life.



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