{"id":25,"date":"2017-11-29T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/collins-tcs-12\/"},"modified":"2017-11-29T20:04:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:04:37","slug":"collins-tcs-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/collins-tcs-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Collins TCS-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have acquired a TCS transmitter 23rd<\/sup> November 2017. It was
\nan ebay bargain, just a try for a few dollars and bingo! (additionally 110$
\nshipping costs ;-). It travelled in some 10 days from a reseller in Dyer,
\nIndiana, USA towards my shack.<\/p>\n

So this is probably the start of my TCS station, as I want to put it
\ninto the air again. This will take some weeks I suppose and\u00a0in the the mean time I will search for some more materials, connectors, add-ons
\nand of course a receiver. If you have any? Please let me know.\u00a0Picture below shows my 49 POUNDS COL-52245 RADIO Transmitter-TCS-12, Serial 6623, Contract NXsr-36727.<\/p>\n

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It arrived in pretty good condition, only 2 modulator tubes 1625 are missing
\nand the antenna terminals are modified to PL259.<\/p>\n

Update December 14th 2017: <\/p>\n

It took me a week only, to find a matching\u00a0receiver, a 40 pounds COL-46159 RADIO RECEIVER TCS-12, serial 16345, contract NXsr – 47395. Fred PA0MER had a good looking and nice working receiver for sale. <\/p>\n

I visited Fred for a \u201csmoke-test\u201d of the transmitter, as he had a working power supply with the right power connector. The transmitter had a problem, no master oscillator signal and we noticed that the 3 steel tubes 12A6 were not gtting warm. 12V filament was available as the 1625\u2019s were glowing. It turned out that all 3 12A6 tubes had a broken filament and after replacing the 3 tubes the TCS transmitter was working. 25 watts AM and 40 Watts CW.<\/p>\n

Next target will be\u00a0to find parts to reverse some of the \u201cmodifications\u201d and bring at least this set as close to original as possible. Fred had 2 nice housings, 2 1625\u2019s, Original antenna connectors, a receiver connector with cable and after leaving a few Euro\u2019s I went back home\u2026..<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a picture of the receiver:<\/p>\n

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More news coming up soon……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have acquired a TCS transmitter 23rd November 2017. It was an ebay bargain, just a try for a few dollars and bingo! (additionally 110$ shipping costs ;-). It travelled in some 10 days from a reseller in Dyer, Indiana, USA towards my shack. So this is probably the start of my TCS station, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pa3am.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}