[MRCA] TBX and TBY

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It's worth remembering, though, that at the time the Marines landed on 
Guadalcanal the Army wasn't substantially better off in the radio department.  
The SCR-284 (more or less the Army's equivalent to the TBX) had just begun to 
be issued in time for the landings in North Africa three months later.  The 
SCR-194 & 195 (the Army's equivalent to the TBY) was inferior to the TBY.  
I never heard of any being used in North Africa.  The Army did have the 
SCR-193 and SCR-299 but didn't yet have or was just getting any of the other 
sets that have been mentioned in this thread as superior to the TBX or TBY.

In a message dated 1/20/2011 2:40:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
crp.wd8axb at comcast.net writes: 
> I feel sorry for USMC radio men of WW2. 
> 
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> With radios like the TBY and TBX, I have to believe guts were the reason 
> the Marines carried the day on the battlefield. 
> 
> Good commo gear looks like a weak point. 
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> 
> Charlie WD8AXB 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ray Fantini" <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> 
> To: "Dennis" <spike.dennis at yahoo.com>, mrca at mailman.qth.net 
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:32:56 PM 
> Subject: Re: [MRCA] TBX/TCS Yah sure! 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Ray Fantini KA3EKH 
> 

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