[Milsurplus] TBX-8 in WW2
Thekan, Paul
Paul.Thekan at cpii.com
Fri Aug 19 15:11:24 EDT 2011
A number of years ago a friend obtained a rather well used TBX -6. Inside the lid where I believe the tuning charts clip in was a single folded , well worn, sheet of paper and type written on it where the names of ships and their code names as well as some other information I believe.
Paul
N6FEG
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From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hue Miller
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 11:46 AM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] TBX-8 in WW2
I had thought the TBX-8 arrived too late to actually be used. Maybe this
thought
was also supported by the number of new-condition ones I have seen. But I
recently viewed an -8 with painted marking " APA-37 ", which is Attack
Cargo ship Cavalier. I wasn't really aware such radios were carried for
possibly emergency or shore party use on such a range of vessels. Later
the TBX was supplanted by the GRC-9 for such use.
I also saw a rebuilt, apparently, set I think is a TBX-2 ( all I remember
of the contract number was something like C**-****5D ) where a
new plastic addition to then nameplate obscured the top part where
the TBX - model number appears. The equipment line on the tag said
only "A UNIT OF MODEL TBX".
-Hue Miller
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