On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:06:01 -0400, Larry W4CSC wrote:

engsol wrote in
:

snip

Norm B (who has never worked on a solid-state radar, but has on
tube type 2 and 5 mega Watt ones)


Navy? AN/SPS-6? SPS-55? SPS-30? SPS-21, the old Raytheon Pathfinder?

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt...(c; Old Navy Fart, here. The 30
could see the moon if you kept keying the repeater with pulses on its
trigger input. It would kill a seagull in its beam out several hundred
yards.

Yep, Navy '55 thru '59....the aviation part, so it was the APS-20 and APS-45.
Later I worked on the FPS-16 at Vandenburg AFB.
The DEWLine had a really old radar,,,FPS-19 as I recall...
it used a klystron rather than a maggie. Strange beast, but reliable.