[MRCA] TBX/TCS Yah sure!

[Ray Fantini]

Photographic evidence of TBX series of radios beyond Tarawa are far and few between! I can't think of one. Yes HF is the preferred mode of communications beyond short range VHF but considering the four man crew involved in supporting the TBX, its low power and that it was mentioned in at least two book as being a week point in attempting to establish communications between ship to shore I would be surprised that it was not replaced with something more functional. I will look for the exact source but the quote about ditching the TBX in favor of a jeep mounted TCS is not mine but one that I have seen before.
The uninformed & pretty dumb
Ray Fantini KA3EKH

-----Original Message-----
From: mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dennis
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 12:36 PM
To: mrca at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MRCA] TBX/TCS Yah sure!

>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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.

KB0SFP
Monitor(all USB): 
3996, 5403.5, 7296, 14342.5, 18157.5



      
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