[Boatanchors] What is a WRR-10

[Francesco Ledda]

I used to have some tuning heads for the WRL-1. These were made by Collins. These were not very sensitive or fancy. 

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On Feb 8, 2011, at 6:07, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom was just kidding me because he knows I have a 3000 lb Navy
> receiver in the basement...
> 
> AN/WRR-10 sounds unlikely as the WRR series are communications
> receivers, not countermeasures receiving systems.
> The AN/WLR-1 countermeasures receiving system covers 50MHz to 10.75
> GHz so that matches the original poster's specs. For your reading
> pleasure, I have scanned a technical description of the AN/WLR-1 - The
> 5 MB download is at
> http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/10787/10787-01.pdf
> 
> There is an AN/WLR-10 radar threat receiver, but I don't know the freq
> coverage for that. WLR-10 evidently works with WLR-8, a 500 MHz-18 GHz
> radar receiving system. But in spite of the WRR-10/WLR-10 name
> similarity, the WLR-10 sounds too modern to be in an ER advert.
> 
> cheers,
> Nick K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
> 
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:21 PM, George Morton <n7hr at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
>> Gents -  I thot I had responded to this one already,  but here goes again.
>> Recco all read "Blind Man's Bluff" to
>> put into perspective what it was used for.  Think correct nomenclature
>> should be "an/wlr-1".  It was a spectrum
>> vacuum cleaner to detect and identify type of emmitter one was listening to.
>> It would be about useless ashore, and trying to get ahold of the matching
>> antenna package highly unlikely.   was on the USS SKIPJACK SSN585  and
>> others.  Brgds to all, Geo
>> at the behest of the NSA (aka the no such agency)
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS" <frederic.clarke at navy.mil>
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] What is a WRR-10
>> 
>>> 1200 Lbs, eh?  Nick, K4NYW might be able to help.
>>> http://navy-radio.com/
>>> 
>>> 73 Tom/W4OKW
>>> 
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