[Milsurplus] Bendix TA-20A

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I'm sorry, but any tech who sticks his hands into a radio with voltages above 
about 30 and who gets bit deserves the Darwin Award, not sympathy.  

Obviously the thing didn't come out of any US B-25.  It's got what appears to 
be a 5894 up front and Type N connectors.  Looks like cheap civilian junk to 
me.  I've thrown away a fair amount of it.  

In a message dated 10/20/2006 10:24:03 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gl4d21a at juno.com writes: 
> Ya gotta love a guy with a good sense of humor!
> 
> 280040127929
> 
> I especially liked "It appears to be complete and un tampered with."!
> Regards to the List,
> Jim
> 
> I have some insight into why that thing looks like that.  Back around 
> 1960, I was working in a 2-way radio shop, and one of the owners also 
> had an A &E certificate.  The mobile radio business got slow, and he 
> went out and solicited repair and alignment of a fleet of those *%
> $#*&+! things.  After working on benign mobile radios, it was a 
> shocking experience to find most of the tuning adjustments had B+ on 
> them, all unmarked, of course.  Probably some tech had less patience 
> than I did and flung the d---ed thing across the room as hard as he 
> could.  I sure wanted to.
> 

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