[Milsurplus] VHF radar

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Marty R's GI-stuff haunt" <cosmoline@aa4rm.ba-watch.org>
Subject: [Milsurplus] VHF radar


> Hey the poor SCR268 was missed last week.  Our 1st radar, the "searchlight
> aiming set."  This thing had separate TX and RX antennas & no TR swirch.
> SCR270 used 1 antenna and a rube-goldberg .25 wave stub & TX tetrode
> receive RF pre-amp to preserve the oddish main RX rf amp (1831?).

Searchlight aiming set? Maybe that too - i only knew about the gun aiming
use, for AA battalion with 90mm AA guns. My father worked around these
in the gun side of the works in North Africa and Italy. He sez the thing was
called "the laundry machine".
Hue