[Milsurplus] Preview: TCS Receiver Resurrection Tips.

[Ray Fantini]

Sounds like the gauntlet has been cast down, we will all be waiting to see what you have to say about TCS restoration but the thing I want to know is who is it that has been giving the TCS family a bad rap? I have owned several over the years along with using them on both 40 and 80 AM with no issues except for the low power, but the stability and modulation is very good for a radio of that era. One of my favorite projects has been to take GE Master Base station power supplies and gut them to build AC power supplies for the transmitter that provide the 400, 250 and 12 volt sources the transmitter requires. Perhaps the only issue I can think of is that's it's not a very useful radio for CW because of the keying system but as an old time HF marine radio it's hard to beat, would assume that many were used in small charter and fishing craft for decades and maybe right up to the drop dead date for AM in that service as long as they had crystals in the transmitters. Think back in the early seventies in order for the TCS to be type accepted it had to be used in crystal control for the transmitter at least, or so I was told.

Ray F/KA3EKH