[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Any TBY People Still On This Side of the Grass?

[Ray Fantini]

Cant speak for all the rest but tend to think a lot of the people over on MMRCG and MRCA are more into the radios that can still be used in there natural state on the air today, the TBY was never a radio that let itself to Ham use. Instability and AM, and think they may have been already obsolete by the time they entered service. Looking at what was happening with the early FM sets like the SCR-300/BC-1000 and how that was the future the TBY was somewhat of a technological dead end. 
About the oldest six meter set that frequents events where people put them on the air, like Dayton, MRCA Gilbert and other events is the BC-1000 because that at least is FM  and has the ability to net with a generation of radios like the PRC-6, PRC-10 and the later generation of tactical FM sets. I have seen a lot of VHF AM activity with things like URC-4 and the like on 144.25 including items as old as SCR-522 sets but unlike the TBX, SCR-284,BC-611 and all the HF WW2 stuff no one runs a TBY, for a museum, WW2 collector or maybe a reenactor but a lot of us who are using this stuff on the air today just would not have any use for the TBY. Maybe at one time if it were modified with a crystal for stability and there was any six meter AM activity but these days you are not going to modify or change something like that if it's in original condition.
Can see any museum with a WW2 pacific diorama needing one, just don't see it actually being used on the air.

Ray F/KA3EKH



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Is there anyone still here serious about the TBY, or have its fans all joined "The Choir Invisible?"

If people wonder why I ask such questions, it's usually because, while slimming "The Cave" down to something manageable (think of Captain Ahab's futile pursuit of the White Whale),I've found something they might find valuable and which I'm willing to donate for shipping cost.

73 DE Dave AB5S