[MRCA] Most Useless Radio: WD8AXB pick

[Rob Flory]

Robert,

We are talking about the radios in a modern context, not their original
one.

You don't give the TBS enough credit.

Rob

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:40 PM, <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

> This whole thread is a basically disgusting review of all that most here
> don't know about military radio sets.
>
> Maybe none of the sets mentioned are useful in your little games today.
> But a lot of people died using these sets so that you could play your
> games.
> The TBS was a key player in winning the Battle of the Atlantic.  The TBY,
> although perhaps not well loved by the Grunts who used it, was better at
> what
> it did than anything else available at the time.  The MAR gave valuable
> service during Korea as US military aviation was switching from VHF to UHF.
>
> In my opinion, any civilian ham band only radio is at the top of any most
> useless list.  Especially those that only cover a single HF band.
>
> Robert  Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
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