-=> 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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