[Milsurplus] RA-1B

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

I have three different TA-2 manuals, the earliest of which covers TA-2G, H & 
J, dated 10/40.  I haven't looked at it recently enough to recall whether the 
three letters are options of basically the same vintage transmitter or whether 
somewhere there is a TA-2G (only) earlier dated manual.  But G is fairly well 
into the alphabet.  I don't know how many of the earlier letters Bendix might 
have skipped but presumably they started off as either TA-2 or TA-2A and 
wouldn't have run all the way up to G in less than two years.

Oddly, the TA-2G & H manual (no J) is dated 09/41.  The TA-2J-24 manual here 
is dated 10/41.

In a message dated 12/21/2007 3:28:08 PM Central Standard Time, 
kk5f at earthlink.net writes: 
> >What was the "original" transmitter pairing with this receiver? Or was the 
> 
> >receiver at first sold as a standalone?
> >
> >I know the ?suggested? matchup with the TA2J24, but this transmitter 
> >first appeared a few years later, yes?
> 
> I can't find my TA-2 manual right now, but my RA-1B/I/J manual is labeled 
> "First Edition, November 1938."  That would seem to indicate approximately when 
> the RA-1 was being introduced.
> 
> I've always heard of the TA-2 as the companion to the RA-1.  I don't know 
> what else would be more likely.
> 

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