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.... :-)

Drink to the Foam!

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Yes, I served aboard Carriers, 4 of them.
I was in ComCarDiv-3 .
All the gear I wrote about is Old Tech to you I suppose.
Never heard of the gear that you were familiar with
The R-390 was the newest RX in use when I left the service in 1962.
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Ed,

That's because Bullwinkle J. Moose already has the job!! <G>

Daryl

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Re: N connectors
By: Ed Vance to phigan on Sun Nov 16 2025 09:43 pm

Yeah, I've got adapters... and I even
have a decent cable with N on both
ends, but it's not very long. My issue
is that from what I recall, every
adapter makes you lose 1db of gain.

If I ever want to seriously use the
antenna with one of my radios, I'll
have to make a custom cable.

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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.... :-)

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

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

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

Yes indeed.

Never heard of the gear that you were familiar with
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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I did one carrier, the Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Plankowner of that
fine vessel.

Yes indeed.

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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The world kf electronics has changed a lot since I got out of the Navy in 1962. I had trouble learning Transistorized circuits, and still do.

In the 70's I read a Popular Electronics artical about logic gates and it made sense to me.
I spent much $$$ at Radio Shack on 74xx I.C's.
Ed
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