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Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry
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Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry

So were your radars.

Eisboch

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Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry
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Is there a downside?

SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim

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Jim ETR3


Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry
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Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim


Want to feel old? I think the current AEGIS type radar is called an
AN/SPS-49.
Seems like I also remember an AN/SPS-6. I think it was an air search radar.

Eisboch

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Jim ETR3


Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry
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Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim


Want to feel old? I think the current AEGIS type radar is called an
AN/SPS-49.
Seems like I also remember an AN/SPS-6. I think it was an air search
radar.

Eisboch
We also had the SPS 6 or 8 whatever, and a SPS 30. The 30 looked like one
of those old fashioned satellite dishes on steroids. It could see out about
250 miles, I believe. Ah the good old days.
Jim

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"Jim" wrote in news:lh85h.5372$ig4.890
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You are welcome
Jim ETR3


Which radars? Our rate is pretty much toast these days....

Larry
--
Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim


Want to feel old? I think the current AEGIS type radar is called an
AN/SPS-49.
Seems like I also remember an AN/SPS-6. I think it was an air search
radar.

Eisboch
We also had the SPS 6 or 8 whatever, and a SPS 30. The 30 looked like one
of those old fashioned satellite dishes on steroids. It could see out
about 250 miles, I believe. Ah the good old days.
Jim


Hard to believe that the 6kw Furuno that was on the Egg Harbor had a 60 mile
range and probably better resolution.

Eisboch

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The 30 looked like one
of those old fashioned satellite dishes on steroids. It could see out
about 250 miles, I believe. Ah the good old days.


The 30 was an interesting beast on S-band, I think. If you pointed it at
the moon and kept a pulse generator on the repeater to keep it sweeping
past its range, you could actually measure the distance to the moon by
counting the sweeps X range plus wherever the moon showed up on the last
sweep with the sweep set as far out as it would go. The 30 ran so much
power you had no trouble seeing the moon's reflected signal...(c; It would
cook a seagull that had the audacity to fly right in front of it out of the
air for several hundred yards in its narrow beamwidth.

Did you ever see someone slew the 30 antenna too fast and rip off the
mounting bolts? BIG drive motors, heavy antenna...(c; It could actually
make the ship it was on change course a tiny bit....

Ah, magnetrons driving amplitrons and large klystrons.....POWER IS OUR
FRIEND! Wonder how many of us it cooked with its Xrays leaking out of the
rectifier cabinets?

Larry
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Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim



Eisboch wrote:
Want to feel old? I think the current AEGIS type radar is called an
AN/SPS-49.

Nah, SPY-1

Cool name, huh?

The SPS-49 is a planar array air search radar IIRC.

Seems like I also remember an AN/SPS-6. I think it was an air search radar.


Beats me, I was an engineer.

Regards
Doug King ex-BT1(SW)

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SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim



We had an SPS 10 Pathfinder for surface search and a real antique SPS-6 for
air search. They finally decided the 6 was eating our budget and never
served a useful purpose as we were an AD with two 3" guns who couldn't
shoot down a Cessna and removed it. I kept the mount for the ship's TV
antenna system, tied into the gyros so you could keep it pointed at the
shore stations even if the ship turned...pretty neat, actually...(c;

No TACAN to go with the IFF? I was a TACAN tech working for a couple of
contractors for years....a great job...



Larry
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Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

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"Jim" wrote in news:lZo5h.5223$l25.1892
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SPS 10, SPS 37, Repeaters and IFF. I think I got the numbers right.
Jim



We had an SPS 10 Pathfinder for surface search and a real antique SPS-6
for
air search. They finally decided the 6 was eating our budget and never
served a useful purpose as we were an AD with two 3" guns who couldn't
shoot down a Cessna and removed it. I kept the mount for the ship's TV
antenna system, tied into the gyros so you could keep it pointed at the
shore stations even if the ship turned...pretty neat, actually...(c;

No TACAN to go with the IFF? I was a TACAN tech working for a couple of
contractors for years....a great job...



Larry
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Halloween candy left over.....
Is there a downside?

Loved TACAN. What a brilliant idea originally. Was a USAF TACAN tech.
Never worked on them much, as they worked well and was mostly an ILS guy
until later when worked on airborne radars on transports.