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Documenting my experience as an Amateur Radio Operator and my efforts in restoring and preserving a Rockwell/Collins AN/TSC-60(V)9 HF communications facility.

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TSC-60(V)9

The Collins AN/TSC-60V(V)9 HF Communications Facility - Using HF-80 Radios.  This specific facility did service with the 105th Combat Communications Squadron near Cheney, WA.  Although my unit (the 242) had a (V)2 and later a (V)4, I had the opportunity to visit the 105th one day to tour one of their three (V)9 facilities.  Compared to the (V)2 and 4 we had, the (V)9 appeared to have a lot more room, the Environmental Control Unit (ECU) was integrated into a special slide-out assembly that hung from the ceiling, instead of the separate larger ECU connected via large tubes to the (V)2 and 4.  The radios were smaller and took up less rack space, and the computer control had evolved from specialized custom circuitry to a GRiD computer running specialized software to control the radio systems.

I managed to take possession of AN/TSC-60(V)9 serial number 006 after it had been surplussed and used by the Department of Emergency Management in Spokane County, Washington.  Since taking ownership, my goal has been to return the facility to proper operation (e.g. fix the radio systems), and continue to use it as my radio "Ham Shack."  The further goal is to make no modification to the facility that can't be easily "undone."  I do this so it can be taken back to how it originally was, in the case it ever goes into a museum for antique radios a hundred years from now.

The articles in this section cover different aspects of the AN/TSC-60(V)9 facility and my work to conserve and preserve it.

Title Author
Converting an AN/TSC-60(V)9 from 3-phase to Single-phase power Written by Asa Jay Laughton

Subcategories

HF-80 0

The  Collins HF-80 Radios that make up the AN/TSC-60(V)9 Facility

GRiD 5

The GRiD Systems laptop computer used with the AN/TSC-60(V)9 facility

Related Articles

  • Converting an AN/TSC-60(V)9 from 3-phase to Single-phase power

AN/TSC-60 - Web Links

  • Fair Radio Sales
  • Idaho Motorpool (Military Surplus)
  • Murphy's Surplus
  • ON8PO - TSC-60 in Belgium
  • Real Radios have Motors (may disappear soon)
  • Sheltered Communications Systems Restoration Site

Interest Groups - Web Links

  • Collins Collectors Association
  • Rugged Metal GRiD Laptops - Yahoo Group
  • Washington Digital Radio Enthusiasts
  • Yaesu System Fusion - Yahoo Group

HF-80 - Web Links

  • HF-80 Information
  • Rockwell Collins HF-80 web site by WA3CEX (Jim Stitzinger)

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