[Milsurplus] early-40s USArmy electro-history

[Hue Miller]

I had an FuG220 ( i think it was ) A/C radar back a while, was approx same
square inches as
I'd say an ASB was, but more squared package. No controls on it at all, and
i didn't have any
prayer of  ever finding a control box, not that i would want a radar set
anyway, so i swapped it
off. The construction quality was quite nice, if just slightly less so than
our ASB. On the side it
had some pencilled notation (auf deutsch) that something was wrong with the
main pulse, so
possibly it survived by sitting out the finale in some depot. The main neat
thing about it was the
wonderful glass bulbs in it - some of them date coded 1945 - which was kinda
hopeless for them,
to keep cranking out radar tubes in 1945, when thinking about how to make a
graceful stop
should have been more on their minds, and less hoping for a miracle. The
only other set i have
heard about is one owned by Arthur Bauer, in the Nederlands, who has a
working one.
So a JU88 captured intact would have some pretty interesting electronics in
it, if it maybe
had the FuG220 radar, the FuG10 HF/LF radio, the EZ6 rdf with ferrite core
antenna, and
the 50 MHz  FuG16 voice radio.
Hue