[GreenKeys] Battleship model 15

[Nick England]

https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/tt71-ug-01.JPG


Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m pretty sure the model 28 projector got used shipboard.
> And here’s a film of the M15 version in use shipboard during WW2
> https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78116
>
> M15 projection set (TT-71/FG)
> https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/tt71-projector-02.jpg
>
> M28 projection set (AN/UGR-1)
> https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ugr1-projector-03.jpg
>
> More photos here
> https://www.navy-radio.com/tty.htm
> And the manuals are here
> https://www.navy-radio.com/manuals-ttycorp.htm
>
> I wonder if any survived???
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I remember Walt Zenner talking about something once - maybe it was
>> in the book he and Bob Reek co-authored.  Something about a projector
>> Model 15.  They wanted it for pilot briefings on aircraft carriers
>> because things on the ship were too noisy for the pilots to hear what
>> the briefers were saying.  Anyway he said it was a problem with the
>> mass of the type basket and the ship rolling, so they put together a
>> machine with two type baskets moving in opposite directions.  I don't
>> know if he was kidding or if it was just an experiment that didn't go
>> into production.
>>
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