[Milsurplus] Radar Fans- Check this out

[Marty R's GI-stuff haunt]

> Can you see the Radio Research ad in the pictures?

Wm is that a litteral 'can you see' or do you expect the lot to wind up
there?

I'm pretty much a surplus-source bimbo still & never heard of the lads.

I wrote the guy & copied yesterday's post & he was grateful... corrected
BC894 to BC984, etc.  Then he asked if 'these were radar parts.'  Duh.

I responded & sed 'yes, d'ya mind my nosiness if I ask where found?"

No answer yet.

The story on the '584s in Chinese hands & the Ga Tech chartered study
are true.  Outa mouth of former head of Tech's Radar Branch, Fred D.

Reason for contact 2 yrs back was lot of '584 things turned up @ Ga State 
Surplus & I vectored HeMus to successful bidder.   The bidder who was 
about to crush 'em.  They WERE & ARE SCR784 parts the gov't still had 
salted away in '64.

That's how I know the Thyratron switch deal.

BUT the 784 was X-band & Tech had to find a S-band dish-feed-TX for their
work.  Maybe Radio Research entered there?

Repair techs of period knew the 784 to be the "small dish model" 
built "for the invasion."  Luckily(?) they weren't used.

Now I shudn't have sed "our fighters didn't have a prayer" yesterday.  It was
1964-5 & it shudda read "our advisory aircraft didn't..."

Here's a sorta notable!  Didja see the 5881s in the LV p-s series regulator
section?  Shows 1955-ish service.  Whaddya bet this Ebay lot was p/o 
gifts to Columbia or some such other central american shang-ri-la?  

Shang-ri-la is where FDR sed the Dolittle B25s were based.


  'rm