[Milsurplus] Japanese Chair

Thekan, Paul Paul.Thekan at cpii.com
Tue Feb 14 12:46:31 EST 2017


25 + years ago I was corresponding with a retired Marine Corp Major who served in the South Pacific in WW2. 

He had been involved with radio communications and written me that the TBW  was most cumbersome and a real pain to set up .And how when he was issued the SCR 299  and back on the islands the first thing he did was ditch in a cave two TBW's and hang on to the RBM rcvrs . He wrote the RBM's were the only sets worth saving. He thought he SCR 299 was just the greatest.

Paul
N6FEG

-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ray Fantini
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 7:26 AM
To: David Stinson; Military Surplus Mail List
Subject: [Milsurplus] Japanese Chair

Think that General Vandegrift and the 1st Marine used a lot of captured Japanese equipment including transmitters on Guadalcanal. Can't find it right now but believe that the shore equipment, possibly TBW lacked the range for communications and a captured Japanese transmitter was placed into service for that role at Henderson Field. Do recall accounts of later at Tarawa where radios like the TBX were considered completely unsuitable requiring a large crew and being low powered and when possible a jeep mounted TCS set was far superior. The Navy and Marine units did not appear to have a lot of good choices for short range communications early in the war with sets like the TBY and TBX with something like the TBW being a medium range system but the TCS appears to be an almost ideal platform for short to medium range communications for small craft. Not bad for a set that was basically a civilian design.

Ray F/KA3EKH

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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Stinson
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 9:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] What is the difference between a RBM andRBSreceiver?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick England" <navy.radio at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is the difference between a RBM andRBSreceiver?

> http://www.navy-radio.com/xmtrs/ww2/tbw/tbw-rbm-1945-1511.jpg

Interesting things in this 1945 photo shared by Nick England on Milsurplus:  If you look at the radio op on the left, you can see a GF/RU antenna relay on the wall in front of him.  So they had a air-to-ground station here as well as the TBM/RBM to the right.
Not the captured Japanese chairs as well.
And at the extreme right bottom corner is a BC-221.
I would have expected an LM.
Cool photo.  Thanks, Nick!

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