[Milsurplus] WS-11

[Ray Fantini]

Was watching the" bridge too far" last night and seeing the general state of poor communications of the British ground radios decided to look into more of their ground sets. Would assume a lot of the vehicle or larger sets would be along the line of the WS-19 with the pack sets being the WS-18 being they appear to be the most common of radios of that time.
All this led to the discovery of the WS-11, going to assume that the 11 was withdrawn from general use by 44 but just looking at the WS-11 leaves me with wanting to know more.
One of my favorite WW2 radios to play around with and use in the field is the TBX transceiver, especially the early non-eight version. At one time or another I owned a TBX-4 and 6 and they were great radios for when they were designed. By the context of mid to late WW2 they were way obsolete but for a pre-war design it was a great radio and can still be used today at events like the WW2 AM Net at Dayton, I have used one there a couple times myself.
Having only seen pictures of the front of the WS-11 and not finding anything else about it want to ask if anyone has a link to a site with more information on the radio or possibly a schematic?
Want to look because although they were developed worlds apart would speculate that they are very similar in design, at least the original pre-eight TBX
The one big difference is it appears that the WS-11 was also intended for vehicle use where the TBX never was but still the WS-11 look like an interesting set, if and although I find it almost impossible to think that it can I came across one it looks like it would be a great radio for playing around in the field with.

Ray F/KA3EKH



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