Subj : Re: N connectors
To   : Ed Vance
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Nov 24 2025 08:39:58

-=> Ed Vance wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > 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.

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

 EV> Yes, I served aboard Carriers, 4 of them.
 EV> I was in ComCarDiv-3 .

I did one carrier, the Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72).  Plankowner of that 
fine vessel.

 EV> All the gear I wrote about is Old Tech to you I suppose.

Yes indeed.

 EV> Never heard of the gear that you were familiar with
 EV> The R-390 was the newest RX in use when I left the service in 1962.

I actually worked on an R-390 a few times in the mid-80's.  It was a 
dinosaur then and we only had one of them.  I remember it having a 
ridicously complicated tuning mechanism, lots of gears and shafts, and 
very difficult to get tuned up well.

I think much of the comm gear of today is digitally tuned with some 
mouse clicks on a screen.

Times, they are a-changing.  ;-)



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