[Milsurplus] TA-12 XMTR in Pairs?

Michael Hanz aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org
Sat May 14 12:51:53 EDT 2016


Yes!  With the typical Bendix inverse law of connector size...the 
smaller the box, the larger the connector...

  - Mike

On 5/14/2016 10:55 AM, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus wrote:
> Ha!  Finally, something that actually uses an FK-37.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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> In a message dated 05/14/2016 06:44:07 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org writes:
>> BTW, a photo of the 3616 for the TA-12 is attached for those interested.
>>
>> On 5/14/2016 7:23 AM, Michael Hanz wrote:
>>
>>> Ah!  Okay, that's part of a series of WWII Bendix Interphone systems 
>>> (IM-2, IM3, etc.) that included a bunch of components which provided 
>>> flexible control over a variety of comms equipment.  The heart of 
>>> the system was a 3 watt interphone amplifier with the designation 
>>> 3611. The original 3616 was tailored for the TA-12, but the 3616B 
>>> included the capability for controlling 8 channels - presumably to 
>>> accommodate the TA-2 variants.  See attached three page pdf that 
>>> shows _only_ the 3616 but mentions the difference between it and the 
>>> 3616B.  I can send you a higher resolution version if you wish, but 
>>> it's over a megabyte.
>>>
>>> The junction box was commonly a part of Bendix products, a marketing 
>>> strategy to eliminate the need for an engineer to worry about such 
>>> things when adapting the system to an aircraft.  What you received 
>>> was a complete system when you wrote out the check.  All you needed 
>>> to do was provide the cables.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Mike  KC4TOS
>>
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