Subj : Re: N connectors
To   : Gamgee
From : Ed Vance
Date : Tue Nov 18 2025 16:11:46

> No worries, there are LOTS of different connectors, easy to get
> cross-connected...  ;-)

> The many ships I have been on always have the ET Shop near Main Comm.
> Probably a reason for that...  ;-)

> I've seen lots of different patch panels, of many types.  Some surely 
> had N-connectors, many did not.  It's too broad of a category to 
> generalize the connector types.

> 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").

> ... Is fire supposed to shoot out of it like that!?
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I often visited the Transmitter compartment(s).
Occasionally I would hear a call on the intercom asking to change freq on one
of the TXs and would do it for Main Comm.

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

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

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

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

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

73 de Ed W9ODR . .
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