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kgretter
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Posted on: Feb 10, 2012 - 8:14am
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Just a side note: My dad served on a PT boat, (as a Quartermaster, not a radarman) and then years later spent a decade or so developing waveguide for telecommunications purposes at Bell Labs. Waveguide sounded pretty high tech to me at the time, it never would have occurred to me that he was first exposed to it during WWII.
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Nuge210
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 Posted on: Feb 10, 2012 - 8:23am
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Guys,
I talk to Ron 15's Radar Tech often. I'll see what kind of info he can give you. Maybe he has an SO manual he could lend..................
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Feb 10, 2012 - 9:27am
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Here is a nice example: PT 305 RON 22 Bastia 1944. Notice position of BN antenna and IFF antenna.
take care,
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Posted on: Feb 10, 2012 - 11:06pm
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Hi David, Yes the radar mast is made of wood with metal attachments. The wood is all laminated plywood. It is amazingly lightweight for its size and we guessed the legs are basically hollow beams. I am truly amazed by the workmanship they put into the radar mast. I hope this is helpful. Jerry.
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Nuge210
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Posted on: Feb 12, 2012 - 7:23am
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Here is what I received from Charlie Dewey, Ron 15's civilian radar tech.
"The antenna is in a fiberglass Raydome at top of A-frame wooden mast.
The long rectangular tube is waveguide.
The big aluminum box at the bottom contains the micro-wave RADAR electronics. Various power & control cables run from there to the operator's display position in the Radio/RADAR shack fwd of the bridge.
I'm sorry, but I don't have any manuals etc. They were all highly classified & turned in when I left.
You might try a web search. Raytheon archives maybe ? "
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