[Milsurplus] Fwd: TCS and the 18M

[Nick England]

I wuz wrong about the URC-7 in USN service. 
Nick


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> From: "Donald T. Findlay" <dthomasf at yahoo.com>
> Date: November 18, 2011 5:21:22 PM EST
> To: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TCS and the 18M
> 

> The Navy used them in and around LongBeach Naval station on the tugs and other service craft, I worked on them and trained the station ET's in the ET Shop. I was/am EX USCG and had them in school in '57. this happened around '72/73. I think the Navy had one out on Catalina Is
> 
> --- On Fri, 11/18/11, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TCS and the 18M
>> To: "Ray Fantini" <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
>> Cc: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: Friday, November 18, 2011, 2:13 PM
>> AN/URC-7 was a USCG rig. Maybe used
>> some by USN but I think rarely if ever. 
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 18, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone who knows me knows that my interest is more
>> along the lines of development, use and evolution of
>> equipment and not necessarily in the thorough and complete
>> understanding of one item. Mr. Stinsons post regarding the
>> Collins 18M brings up some interesting questions regarding
>> the TCS family of radios. First: was the 18M produced or
>> used in military service? The relevance of this question is
>> that I have always thought the TCS was an adoption of a
>> civilian design that was pressed into military service if so
>> then what was the civilian radio that fathered the TCS? Was
>> the 18M that radio? Or is the 18M a radio that was the
>> civilian equal to the military TCS? Second: what was the
>> production run for the TCS? When did the first radio of the
>> TCS series, maybe TCS-1 appear? What was the last series?
>> maybe the TCS-15? And were older TCS radios upgraded to
>> later versions with additions of noise limiters and N
>> connectors? And did any of the series come with factory
>> installed noise l
>> im
>>> iters or factory mounted N connectors. I have never
>> seen an N connector that looks as if it had not been done in
>> the field. Third question: was there any intermediate radio
>> between the TCS family and the URC-35? I know the URC-7 fits
>> in there but have only one time seen a URC-7 and have seen
>> tons of TCS and URC-35 sets I. would speculate the URC-7 was
>> not a very successful radio being not many around. So if
>> anyone feels up to the challenge and can produce a timeline
>> for the TCS family of radios including what was used before
>> the TCS, when they were deployed and what replaced them I
>> think that would be great information to get out to the
>> group.
>>> Ray F KA3EKH
>>> 
>>> 
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