[Milsurplus] TBY test data report

[Hubert Miller]

Thanks for that interesting tidbit, Dave. I'm sure a few others at least appreciate small intriguing facts like this.
I'll later dig out my TBY Test Data book and look for signatures in it. 

Now along this general line of looking up names on historic paper, let me recount this. I have a few miscellaneous
pages from a WW2 Army camp in Florida. The papers deal with how to place and control monitors or reporters
( well, "informers" in any other regime ) to report on any possibly disaffected or disloyal soldiers. There is a report
on one soldier who made allegedly pro-German statements and so was noted for special attention. Now, I thought
that this was "practice information", in other words, a fake name and case made up just to educate how such info
gathering system should be operated. Anyway I googled the name and lo and behold, I saw the gentleman's short 
history there, on some genealogy page. Apparently whatever statements he made didn't get him in the stockade,
altho it seems likely his Army career, whatever its potential might have been, was surely limited by the confidential
info in his file. 
Some of the pages discuss "Japanese propaganda effects among Negro soldiers". Of course there was discontent
with an oppressive status quo but I hardly think many American Blacks were swayed by Japanese shortwave 
propaganda or even ever heard it. I thought about donating these pages to the NAACP for their archives and I just might
do that.
Not cross-posting the above to army-radios as I don't want anyone there to have a conniption over off-topic posts, oh no.
-Hue Miller 

>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] TBY test data report

I found I have a TBY-8 manual with test data for s/n 1399 made by Colonial in Buffalo, NY, dated February 1944.  There are 14 pages of actual test results and 22 pages of pre-printed Typical Test Results. The receiver and transmitter tests were signed off by different individuals as were the backlash, power output and sensitivity tests. I imagine they had multiple dedicated test benches with technicians trained for each test so they could queue 'em up and run 'em through.

Most signatures are just a last name but Nina Buscaglia signed her full name once. Found her in the 1940 census living with her parents and siblings in Buffalo. She was 17 in April, 1940 (census day) so she was not yet 21 in February when she signed off on s/n 1399. Just one of many women and men recruited for wartime production work.

Dave
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