Subj : Re: N connectors
To   : Ed Vance
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Nov 18 2025 21:21:45

-=> Ed Vance wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > I certainly didn't see anything in the early 1960's...  LOL  To be
 > honest, most of the patch panels in my Navy were pushbuttons which
 > electronically connected particular radios to a "trunk line" which then
 > connected them to the appropriate antenna coupler.  That panel was
 > called the "SAS" panel as I recall.  In the actual transmitter rooms,
 > there were often many receptacles for a particular antenna, and you
 > would "latch" in a cable with a latch/lock mechanism on the end of it to
 > connect to a certain HF transmitter, for example.  Also you often had to
 > crank some handles on a coupler to get maximum efficiency out of the
 > antenna (reducing VSWR "reflections").

 EV> I often visited the Transmitter compartment(s).
 EV> Occasionally I would hear a call on the intercom asking to change freq
 EV> on one of the TXs and would do it for Main Comm.

 EV> The SRT-14 was my favorite rig.
 EV> I read its manual a lot of times.

 EV> There were WRT's and one TMC in that compartment with the SRT's.

 EV> Up above the Main Deck inthe UHF Room I liked the AN/GRC-17,I think it
 EV> was 17 maybe 29, too long ago for Ed's Head (C) TM to remember.
 EV> It had a 4-65A in it. I liked that tube more than the 4-400 in the
 EV> SRT's.

I think you were a generation or so ahead of me.  The HF transmitters I 
worked on were called URT-23's, with R-1051 HF receivers.  UHF 
transceivers were called WSC-3's with some older SRC-9's.  I forget the 
names of the various patch panels and antenna couplers.

 EV> Back on topic, The panel I referred to was in Radio One , next to Main
 EV> Comm. It let different Antenn be used with the Receivers in Radio One.

 EV> My reason for writing Main Comm earlier is because I served as a Flag
 EV> Messenger and was in there mainly.

Nice.  The names of the Comm spaces varied by what class of ship you 
were in.  The stuff you mention sounds like Carrier stuff....  :-)

Drink to the Foam!



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