[Boatanchors] Fw: Fw: Collins Radio Navigational Equipment

[David Knepper]

Can anyone assist Jack with information on the Collins OR-101 TVOR.
Please reply to Jack directly.

Thank you

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj at weather.net>
To: "Jack" <wjoycejack at sbcglobal.net>
Cc: <collinsradio at comcast.net>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Collins Radio Navigational Equipment


>I don't know much about avionics. I was in the group that mostly did 
>broadcast but also on the side did ham gear. I recall finding 90 / 150 Hz 
>receiving filters in surplus that would have been parts of TACAN or VOR 
>receivers.
>
> I acquired a box of AF manuals, that appear to be mostly on Collins 
> equipment, at a hamfest in October. I haven't yet checked to see what is 
> in each 3" thick binder, whether its one piece of equipment or several. I 
> need to do that some day.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Adviser to the Collins Radio Association.
>
> On 12/23/2011 7:39 PM, Jack wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the help Dave. It was nice talking with you.
>> */Jack/*
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Dear Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Johnson,
>> My name is MSgt Jack Williams USAF Retired. I was stationed in England
>> at a small base called RAF Bruntingthorpe located about 10 miles south
>> of the city of Leicester. The base was used by the US Air Force from
>> about 1957 until we closed the base and gave it back to the RAF in 1962.
>> During that time I was in charge of maintaining the Ground Radio
>> Navigational equipment for the TAC base. We supported about twenty RB-66
>> reconnaissance aircraft. We had an Electric Corp AN/URN-3 TACAN. a
>> Collins Radio OR-101 TVOR, and a British made LF Beacon.
>> My inquiry is in regard to the Collins OR-101 TVOR. I know it was a
>> "rare bird" because it was the only one I came across during my 21 year
>> career in the Air Force. I had no formal training on the OR-101 but was
>> able to self-teach myself using the Collins Radio Technical books which
>> accompanied the equipment. It was simple in principle and much easier to
>> maintain than the Wilcox TVOR prominently used by the Air Force during
>> my career.
>> Have any of the OR-101s survived? If so, where are they now? Are any of
>> the former Collins staff still around who might remember the OR-101?
>> The best of 73s,
>> /*Jack*/ (In 1956, K5EJJ, now KB9MUC)
>> PS: I have attached two photos. One is of the OR-101 at RAF
>> Bruntingthorpe and the other is the 1974 MARS station setup at Former
>> Bergstrom AFB, Texas.
>> PPS: Information about my MARS photo:
>>
>>
>>   Bergstrom AFB MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System) Radio station
>>   June 1974
>>
>> A1C Karen Agopsowicz - MARS station operator
>>
>> For the Hams out there I (not Miss Asopsowicz above) am KB9MUC (Indiana
>> 2005)
>>
>> Formaly: K5EJJ (Louisiana 1956), and WA4MND (Alabama 1963).
>>
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