[Milsurplus] This has to be a first - TCZ

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:39 PM, <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

> Todd,
>
> Short answer is "yes".  By about a year.  As I said earlier, AN/ART-13 was
> created by simply changing the nameplates on the various ATC conponents.
> Cxx-52296-A became T-47/ART-13, etc.  I thought that everyone knew that.


I misread, thought you meant that TCZ was re-tagged as ATC or vice versa.
Looks like it was Mike M who mentioned this.

Having been exposed initially to only the ART-13 versions (probably through
its larger numbers) and their replacing the BC-375 later in the war, I'd
always thought the radio proper was a later arrival. Hence the surprise
that it was already being used in the first few months of the war. I've
know for sometime that the Navy also employed this transmitter, and also
that they often tended to be the first to try new items due to available
funding. Seeing this preliminary manual certainly added more texture to the
overall feel.

That's how the fun remains even after you procure the toys. The history
tends to follow afterward, at least in my case. No doubt related to my
later arrival on the scene which missed the initial surplus wave, but
positioned me to find literally tons of 'boatanchors' when everyone else
seemed to want the latest/greatest imported radio. My first ART-13 was free
for carrying it off back in the late 80s.

Seems there's always something new to learn, regardless of how much we
already know.

~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4