[Milsurplus] Ebay TBY now TBW

[howard holden]

Agreed Ray!  And yes the GO/TBW might be based on the TDE, although the TBW and GO are maybe by comparison lightweights. The TDE and TCK also require a MG set.  The 803 is indestructible! They should have never come out with the 813 although it's rated for higher Mhz.


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From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
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Subject: Ebay TBY now TBW


I built up and ran a TBW for some time, sold it off a long time ago. Fun transmitter. The 803 output tube was almost indestructible! Did a video of it back in the old SD analog days at :



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd4gPNGNYRU



The GO and the TBW always appeared to me to be a light weight version of the shipboard TDE transmitter. Don’t know if that’s the case or not. For a long time wanted a TDE or TCK for playing around with AM but now days all I can think of is how much that stuff weighs.



Ray F/KA3EKH




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The PBY Catalina used a GO-9 transmitter, the ground version of the GO-9 transmitter was the TBW. The TBX also fits in there somewhere as being a primitive and troublesome radio to operate, at least in military context because I have owned and operated them before and love that radio and then there is the TBY.  Looks all related to me! Wonder if there was a TBZ?


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