[MRCA] TBX/TCS Yah sure!

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My main complaint from a tactical use standpoint about the design of the 
TBX (unlike the BC-654 and BC-1306) has always been that in a pinch you could 
not operate the receiver off of the hand crank or gasoline powered 
generator.  And secondarily, that despite I think having the second highest number of 
different power supplies built, not until the TBX was there a single power 
supply that would operate both receiver and transmitter.

In a message dated 1/20/2011 11:45:50 AM Central Standard Time, 
spike.dennis at yahoo.com writes: 
> >Trivia or Question: I think the TBX-4/5 or  6 were the only radios to 
> ever see 
> >combat, famous picture of one at Tarawa comes  to mind and the TBX-8 that 
> 
> >replaced it was never deployed.
> --------------------------
> Not true!
> I have interviewed Naval &Marine artillery spotters that were still using 
> the 
> TBX series in Korea to direct the off shore guns, or who went in 
> pre-bombardment 
> to set up grid squares. The radio was favored because it would float. The 
> TBX &
> the SCR-300 had different applications.
> 
> >HF field radios  were thru by 43/44?
> -----------------------
> ABSOLUTLEY NOT TRUE!!
> &realy a pretty dumb thing to say. Use of low power tactical HF remained 
> in 
> widespread use for distances not obtainable with VHF equipment of the same 
> type, 
> until finally(in part) usurped by portable satellite, well into the 
> 1990's. Even 
> then, countries without benefit of satellite still use HF for short &
> medium 
> range communications.
> 
> Read 
> 
> "WHITE TIGERS, MY SECRET WAR IN NORTH 
> KOREA"<
> http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/machines/p_machines_comm.htm#radio6>
> 
> 
> >In the accounts of Tarawa I have read that the marines  dumped the TBX 
> sets in 
> favor of jeep mounted TCS sets
> ------------------------
> Two totally different radios having completely different applications. I'd 
> like 
> to see a marine hump a TCS into the field without benifit if that jeep!
> 
> >, I like the old TBX but if  it were important certainly would want the 
> >additional power and improved  performance of the TCS myself.
> ------------------------
> I would agree totally if you could fit the TCS into the same cabinet as 
> the TBX.
> You must also remember, the first orders for the TBX(as well as the TCS) 
> were 
> placed by the Navy in 1939. At that time, there was no other set in any 
> military 
> inventory that would compare with it. Not until mid-war &the introduction 
> of 
> the BC-1306 was there any viable competition.
> 
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