[Milsurplus] TR-50XM Technical Radio Co.- T-350XM

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 25 Jan 2020 at 2:04, Hubert Miller wrote:

>     How did this Technical Radio Co. model TR-50XM so thoroughly disappear ?
>     Navy contract NXss-LL-23312   3-2-1943.
>     A one - package answer to the TCS.  Final = 2x 807 always both in service; modulated by 
>     HY-1231-Z;  1.5 - 12 MHz in 3 bands. 131 lb. dynamotor supply 45 lb.
>      
>     A close up of electronics Description automatically generated

Looks like a neat rig.

Many years ago, I was given a brand-new, never used, TechRad T-350XM transmitter with 
separate speech-amp by MARS..

What a wonderful transmitter!

A pair of 813s modulated by a pair of 805s (as I remember it). Had a wonderful VFO, and it 
covered 1.5 through at least 20 Mhz. Had a built-in wide-range antenna coupler at the top.

When I left Missoula, Montana several years later, I gave it back to the Montana State 
MARS director. He then traded it to someone for a T-368.

I had a photo at one time of an entire room full of those transmitters at some Army base 
somewhere, all neatly lined up side-by-side and ahead and behind, with antenna leads 
going straight up to the ceiling.

Apparently many of  those were sent to England, and there are very few of them left here in 
the U.S. I did see somewhere on the web where someone had restored one and had it on 
the air.

I sure miss that rig. It was wonderful.

Ken W7EKB