[Milsurplus] Bendix TA-20A

[Scott Johnson]

It is an ARINC equivalent to a Collins 17L-4, about 25Watts 118-136 MHz, 
common in mid fifties to early sixties airliners, Goes with a RA-18 
receiver.  FB for conversion to 2M AM.  Some one must have run over it, 
I have a suspicion the scrawling was just a joke. Could have come out of 
a B-25 air tanker, they tended to have whatever radio the operators 
could scrounge up, and that usually meant discarded airline equipment.

Scott W7SVJ/AFA6SJ

WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> 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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