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Mike Andrews wrote:
George R. Gonzalez wrote:
There's a whole load of snapshots of boatanchor equipment that was carried
(and still is) on the USS Pueblo.
URL:
http://users.erols.com/eengineer/pueblomain.html
I can identify some R390A's, a Model 28 TTY, a few HP signal generators, but
that's about it.
Can anybody identify some of the other stuff in the racks?
Pic 6: the top left and bottom right gear is a pair of R-1051
receivers, exact model uncertain.
Pic 7: bottom gear is another pair of R-1051 receivers.
Pic 15: 6 of the eight items in the middle two rows are R-1051s.
Pic 19: three of the items in the left-hand rack appear to be some
flavor of crypto gear.
More info on Pic 19 (http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_17.jpg):
the three identical items stacked together on the left
side appear to be KG-14 cryptodevices, from the picture of a KG-14 at
http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg14.html.
The arrangement of the thumbscrews that hold the box in its case
is pretty distinctive, and the fuseholders just below that box
sticking out of the front panel do, I think, pretty much cinch the
identification.
at the bottom.
.... It's a 36 (or 37?)(it's been a while)
linked with the 14s for fleet broadcasts...
.... and other things. The DeMux gear is in one
of the photos.
The display is "staged". Many of these things
don't belong together.
There's some basic CT(R) stuff about in the pics.
the 1051s would link ship/ship ship/shore
PIC5
http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_2.jpg
above the beast-390 is the best receiver
that I ever worked with... all space,
all time. Something like an FRR 57(59..
whatever). I tuned and used...
Properly tuned with all the filters intact
it was the absolute best receiver for
signal discrimination.
PIC8
Is one of the saddest things of all time.
The Navy screwed Bucher. Big time.
Bucher was the best of the best.
A great sailor and a fine commander.
He died about a month ago.
Fair seas and following winds.
http://www.usspueblo.us
....and not a bad artiist. RIP.
n