[Milsurplus] Tales of TBY Glory

[Hue Miller]

Glenn, that is a pretty damn funny story and I should not have been trying 
to eat while reading it.
I found the TBY to have a similar utility. In the mid 1970s I had an 
apartment neighbor who
liked his television LOUD. By listening I could turn to the same channel on 
my TV. Of course,
this was good old broadcast, not cable. With the TBY  set nearby, and its AC 
supply, I
employed the TBY in narrowband, not wideband mode. I could fine tune the TBY 
so that
the television just began to lose "horizontal sync" and the image started 
getting all bendy.
I could actually hear his heavy footsteps to the TV, at about which time I'd 
unkey the
TBY.  After a few repetitions of this procedure, his TV would go off for the 
night.
I also had good successes with a 1930s medical diathermy machine and a old 
Heathkit
TV alignment generator, but the TBY had a certain finesse to it.
( There was a hippie pizza joint in town named "Morningtown". One of the 
paintings
decorating the walls was one titled "B-25 Bends Out Heavy"; maybe that was 
what inspired
me.  )  -Hue