[Milsurplus] was " World War II Radio Heroes " now TBX

[Hue Miller]

A long time back I had a sniff at a TBX-8 with my PDR-27 and it is HOT. 
Maybe even much moreso than the TBY.
So another project for the future will be to re-sniff the TBY, TBX-early, and TBX-8 for radioactivity level.
My friend John tells me that the Japanese equipment is “hot”, too. Like that little one tube talkie, the
Type 94-6.

Now as to the Marines, in WW2 they did use the SCR-694 / BC-1306, which was as new an HF radio
as you could find anywhere.
-Hue Miller

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ray Fantini 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 7:51 AM 
To: Don Merz ; Hue Miller ; Military Surplus Mail List (milsurplus at mailman.qth.net) 
Subject: RE: [Milsurplus] " World War II Radio Heroes " 

The TBX family can be broken into two groups, everything before the TBX-8 and the TBX-8. I like the older prewar design of the first radios like the TBX-6 that used just one tube in the transmitter, a lot of 34 tubes in the receiver  and a huge dynamic microphone. The pre eight design was very simple and clean and had the incredible capability of receiving while  drawing less than 10 Ma from the B battery and using just a D cell or two for the receiver filaments. The receiver did have its disadvantages with no AVC system in a net operation you have to ride the gain control or have you ears blasted off by the near in stations also there was no ability to do push to talk , use 1/4 inch plugs for the headset  and you had to use a special high output microphone to modulate the one tube transmitter. I never had the correct microphone for my TBX-6 but I did build a T-17 with a transistor pre amplifier in it that did a great job modulating the radio. The TBX-8 used all newer components and had a microphone pre amplifier, master oscillator tube and  PTT operation along with other improvements. I once thought that the TBX-8 arrived too late for any deployment in WW-2 and was only used in Korea but think in a past series of emails it was proven to have been used in WW-2 but not at all surprised at all that it would have been used in Korea, especially by the Marines being they have never been cutting edge on technology.
Ray F/KA3EKH