[ARC5] [Fwd: [Vintage-Military-RADAR] Re: Fwd: Early AA Radar]

[J. Forster]

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Subject: [Vintage-Military-RADAR] Re: Fwd: Early AA Radar
From:    "briwilmen at rogers.com" <briwilmen at rogers.com>
Date:    Wed, November 30, 2011 2:01 pm
To:      Vintage-Military-RADAR at yahoogroups.com
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I am the  Brian Mendes referred to in Richard Hankins recent post. I am
hoping that a member of this group might live within driving distance of
the RCA Museum in Shilo, Manitoba, Canada and could make a visit to check
out the AA radar artifacts that are parked in the storage yard of the
museum. I have not been there myself but do possess a large number of
photos taken in 2006 by a non technical visitor. We have been able to
identify three AA radars..

GL III (c) one being the APF unit (aka  AA radar No 3 Mk 1)the other the
ZPI unit ( aka AA radar No 4 Mk 1 )

A post war AA radar with designation AN-MPS 501B

A USA produced AA fire control system M-33, based upon the unitdesigned
for the original Nike Hercules FCS.This Fire Control system has three
trailers identified as M 242, M 243, M 244

All these units are parked outdoors and apart from a coat exterior fresh
paint applied to the two GL III (c) cabins,no interior preservation
measures have been implemented

I have created two albums Early radar 1 Exteriors and Early Radar 2
Interiors. No attempt has been made to identify which correspond to the
any particular cabin. I wish to create an image of just what is located on
the site and perhaps create an interest.

Kind Regards Brian Mendes



--- In Vintage-Military-RADAR at yahoogroups.com, Richard Hankins <g7rvi at ...>
wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> a couple of weeks ago I came across an on-line forum dealing with
> anti-aircraft matters - and it has a radar section.   Its at:
> http://www.anti-aircraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.cgi?
>
> Amongst the various posts there are photos and details of a few
> surviving ground radars from WWII, some of the really early ones.    And
> I received the following comment from Brian Mendes in Canada regarding
> one of these that is just rusting away......
>
>
> best regards
>
>
> Richard
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Early AA Radar
> Date: 	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:38:50 -0800 (PST)
> From: 	BRIAN MENDES <briwilmen at ...>
> Reply-To: 	BRIAN MENDES <briwilmen at ...>
> To: 	Richard.hankins at ... <Richard.hankins at ...>
>
>
>
> Hi Was pleased to read your post on the Anti Aircraft.co.uk website. I
> may have been one of the last UK military personnel to be trained on the
> AA radar No 3 Mk 2. I later served with a HAA Regt RA which was re
> equipped with the AA radar No 3 Mk7 and qualified as an operator
> instructor, after attending a short course at the School of AA
> Artillery, Manorbier, Wales.
> I have lived in Canada for many years and one of my interests has been
> in trying to create awareness of the existence of an AA radar No 3 MK 1,
> which sits neglected in the open storage yard of the RCA museum in
> Shilo,Manitoba ( see photo on the AA website) Unlike so many of the WW
> II mobile military radars found around the world, much of the original
> interior pre solid state electronics is still in place, but in need of
> preservation. To date I have been unable to persuade.authorities to
> grant the museum some dedicated funds to initiate some preservation
> measures to ensure its proper care. I am of the opinion that had this
> valuable and unique artifact found its way into the hands of
> enthusiastic restorers ( like yourself ) its partial restoration would
> have been under way by now.
> Kind Regards  Brian Mendes ( Kitchener, Canada )
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>



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