[Milsurplus] TBY on the air

[Hubert Miller]

Do you have any evidence that TBY was used on any kind of landing craft ?
I mean LST, LCM or whatever those designations were. ( Not LSD, which was “Large Steel Desk”. )
As for the Alligator type troop assault landing craft, i suppose after Tarawa they were all installed
SCR-610. I do have a manual which illustrates this use.

I have maybe 2 complete TBY which I will probably sell off. I have one grey painted and with AC supply.
I am thinking I should keep that grey one a while longer. I am really curious whether the repainting process
redistributed the radium or got rid of most of it. Also I want to try my idea of dispensing with the feedback
coil xmtr circuit and put a crystal from grid to grid on the acorn triode transmit tubes. As a simple mod,
not very intrusive, to stabilize the transmitter for cooperability with more modern gear. The TBY receiver
yes, can be used as – is to receive CB and 10 meters AM. Very broad, yes. ( I have a “CB monitor receiver
for your car, from back in the ‘CB era’, that is a superregen receiver, no tuning control, just volume and
squelch. So you could pick up any CB activity on maybe any of the channels without having to tune
them in. )

“The Division was using the TBX and the TBY; the latter was cursed by radio operators and battalion
commanders alike”.  Page 24, “The Battle for Tarawa”, 1947.

-Hue Miller

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