[Milsurplus] Preview: TCS Receiver Resurrection Tips.

[Hubert Miller]

I think only a very very few, hardly any, were used in marine 2 MHz use, I
mean in the civilian fleet. There were too many knobs on it - fishermen
wanted a radio with channel and volume knobs. 
I think the marine radio service businesses also would define what was out
there - they had a say in what they would maintain.
-Hue Miller 

>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 th  e 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