[Milsurplus] TCM-2 - and other stuff

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 5 Jul 2017 at 2:45, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus wrote:

> You have to remember that the Navy, having in the first place far fewer of everything than the 
> Army, didn't jump on the "get rid of everything - there'll never be another war" bandwagon like the 
> Army did.  In the second place, although the Navy mothballed hundreds of ships, they didn't 
> actually scrap that many.  And all of the radios aboard ships were mothballed with the ships rather 
> than being pulled off and surplused out.

Yes. That makes sense. In addition, the Navy has always been the most "conservative" of 
our services.

In fact, I got my first TCM-2 via MARS. Army MARS, as I remember it.  And I have not been 
able to figure out how MARS even got it. It was brand new, having never been "Accepted for 
Service" by the Navy. As I mentioned, it came with the original power supply too.

Another transmitter I got through MARS and which I wish I still had was a brand-new, 
complete TechRad T-350XM. I used it for a couple of years, then when I left home (Missoula, 
Montana), I gave it back to the local MARS director. He then traded it off to someone for a 
T-368.

Sigh.....the idiocy of youth... :-(

Ken W7EKB

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