[Boatanchors] What is a WRR-10

[J. Forster]

You don't need all that much sensitivity to see a RADAR pulse a looooong
way away.

-John

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