[Milsurplus] TBY on the air

[Richard Solomon]

These were also used by the Navajo Code
Talkers I believe.

73, Dick, W1KSZ

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 1:26 PM Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> 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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