[Milsurplus] EG-3 motor generator set for ??

[Nick England]

See http://www.navy-radio.com/xmtrs/tbx.htm
TBX power supplies included:
xmtr
NT-21263 hand crank
EF gas-powered generator
EG 115vac motor-generator set
EH 115vdc motor-generator set
EJ 12vdc dynamotor
rcvr
EL 115vac rectifier p/s
EM 6vdc dynamotor
EN 12vdc dynamotor
EO 24vdc dynamotor
EP 32vdc dynamotor
EQ 115vdc dynamotor
EAO 115vac rectifier p/s


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
wrote:
>
> Thought that the TBX was intended to be used in the field with the
companion battery case that's the same size as the radio for receive
operations and a crank generator that was intended to be strapped to a
tree? That way you would tell the lowest man in the squad to start cranking
the generator prior to transmitting and have him stop when it's time to
receive.
> Somewhere recall reading something about that radio being accompanied by
a squad of men to operate. A gas powered generator would be a waste being
its only required during transmitting and if you have a dozen or so men
involved in the transport and set up of the radio you would always have two
or three hands around to crank the transmitter.
> Imagine  though in something like a fire control situation and in use
throughout several hours cranking the generator would get old, but legend
has it that the TBX was used primarily by the USMC and if there is any
branch of the service that would be up to the challenge of cranking a radio
all day long it would be them.
>
> Ray F
>