[Boatanchors] OS-8

[Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS]

  I bet you had an "octopus" nearby too!

73 Tom/W4OKW

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick KF4NS [mailto:kf4nsradio at verizon.net] 
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 5:58 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; navy.radio at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchors Digest, Vol 86, Issue 58

Boy, does that bring back memories. I  used both of the OS-8s. First on
the destroyer in the 50's. Then on the radar picket ship in the early
60's where it was used with the R-390's in combo with the URC-32
transmitter. We tuned the receiver for a lissajous pattern on the scope
which confirmed that we were locked in to the data signals on LSB while
we transmitted voice to the USAF NORAD station at OTIS AFB for any
necessary tuning needed or to get a ROGER on the sent data.

Those were enjoyable times in Navy.

73, Dick KF4NS
St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
Keep The Glow!


-----Original Message-----
From: Clarke, Tom AIR4.0P NATOPS 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 5:11 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] OS-8

 I bet you had an "octopus" nearby too!

73 Tom/W4OKW

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick KF4NS [mailto:kf4nsradio at verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 5:58 PM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; navy.radio at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Boatanchors Digest, Vol 86, Issue 58

Boy, does that bring back memories. I  used both of the OS-8s. First on
the destroyer in the 50's. Then on the radar picket ship in the early
60's where it was used with the R-390's in combo with the URC-32
transmitter. We tuned the receiver for a lissajous pattern on the scope
which confirmed that we were locked in to the data signals on LSB while
we transmitted voice to the USAF NORAD station at OTIS AFB for any
necessary tuning needed or to get a ROGER on the sent data.

Those were enjoyable times in Navy.

73, Dick KF4NS
St Petersburg, FL 33714 USA
Keep The Glow!

----- Original Message -----
From: <boatanchors-request at mailman.qth.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:01 PM
Subject: Boatanchors Digest, Vol 86, Issue 58


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: Message: 3
: Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:16:43 -0400
: From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
: Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Navy Gray
: To: kt4ae at bellsouth.net, Boatanchors-qth <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
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: Navy electronics changed gray shades around 1950.
: The original OS-8/U
: http://www.navy-radio.com/test/os8b-u-94.jpg
: is much darker than the later OS-8C/U
: http://www.navy-radio.com/test/os8c-u-01.JPG
:
: I like Rust-Oleum Light Machine Gray for the lighter 50's-60's Navy
radio gear
: In this photo,
: http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-pan27.JPG
: the bottom TTY unit was painted with Light Machine Gray - the other
: TTY units are original Navy colors.
:
: Rust-Oleum Smoke Gray works well for the late 40's darker gray color.
: In this photo
: http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/shack/shack-122.JPG
: I painted the racks with Smoke Gray and the equipment is original
: (some of it yet-to-be-cleaned nicotine brown)
:
: Neither is a perfect match and a lot depends on the lighting, but
: these seem to be pretty close.
:
: cheers,
: Nick K4NYW
: www.navy-radio.com
:
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