[Milsurplus] TBX on Guam

[Clare Owens]

Yes, at least some of the early models like the TBX-2 have the exposed
Radium paint.  I have a TBX-6 which is not radioactive.

If one just Has to have a radioactive TBX or TBY it is best to overcoat the
front panel with a clear fixative to keep the Radium in place.

During the war the Radium paint was the least of the radio operator's
worries, but now things are usually different...

All serious Mil radio collectors should have a working radiation detector -
my opinion.

Clare

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:45 PM Michael Veach via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The TBX is a neat radio. I’ve read about them. I’d love to get one someday
> and restore it. But is it true that on some of them, all the front panel
> markings were painted with radium paint? Is that dangerous?
>
> 73,
> Mike.
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
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>
> On Monday, February 15, 2021, 11:39 PM, Richard Solomon <
> dickw1ksz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's a bunch of copies on e-Bay.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:29 PM Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> They made a 1962 movie about George Tweed..." No Man Is An Island ".
>
> Haven't seen it available for a long time.
>
> 73 Mark K3MSB
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 9:53 PM Robert Goff <robert.h.goff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> He definitely was a ham before the war-KB6GJX.  He was interviewed in
> QST of March '45.  After the war he came back to Grants Pass, where I
> live and opened a TV-Radio Repair shop.  He's kind of the local hero,
> there's a street here named after him.
>
> de Robert Goff W7MKA
> Grants Pass, Or
>
> > From: David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net>
> > To: main at Army-Radios.groups.io, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [Army-Radios] TBX on Guam
>
> >
> > I read the book online about George Tweed.? I looked him up afterward
> > and it looks like he was a ham. He had a W6? call. There were passages
> > in his book that sure convinced me that he was a ham.
> >
> > This Navy video is pretty neat. Quite the morale booster.
> >
> > K1WHS
> >
> > On 2/15/2021 12:18 PM, Garret wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for sending Hue.? Having done several living history exhibits
> >> with the TBX, it?s always interesting to see and learn more about the
> >> history of these radios, and especially such an amazing story.? I knew
> >> vaguely of Tweed?s story, but had no idea there was a TBX involved.
> >>
> >> Garret
> >>
> >> W8BUG
> >>
> >> *From:* main at Army-Radios.groups.io [mailto:main at Army-Radios.groups.io]
> >> *On Behalf Of *Hue Miller
> >> *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:45 AM
> >> *To:* milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; main at Army-Radios.groups.io
> >> *Subject:* [Army-Radios] TBX on Guam
> >>
> >> This photo is from a Navy 1944 film on the recapture of Guam,
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAU4QcVE2eg
> >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAU4QcVE2eg>
> >>
> >> Looks like a TBX to me.
> >>
> >> The film shows the rescue of George Tweed, "Ghost of Guam", who hid
> >> out on the
> >>
> >> Japanese occupied island for 31 months. The film doesn't look like a
> >> reenactment,
> >>
> >> but it had to have been, as I can't imagine the destroyer had ready a
> >> camera to film
> >>
> >> Tweed signaling from shore and then swimming to the small boat sent to
> >> fetch him.
> >>
> >> Well done. Tweed is a natural actor and speaks well in scene from last
> >> of movie. His
> >>
> >> story also in the book, "Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N." A radioman in the
> >> Navy, Tweed
> >>
> >> postwar became a radio ? TV repair person and died in a car accident
> >> in this state,
> >>
> >> Oregon.
> >>
> >> -Hue Miller
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