[MRCA] TBX and TBY

[J. Forster]

Good point.

I'm guilty myself of thinking the Pacific war did not get really rolling
until after VE day.

Best,

-John

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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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