[Milsurplus] FS: SHIPS 242A Reprint

[David Stinson]

Let me add my endorsement of this book.
If you have any interest at all in U.S. Navy radio equipment,
it is a "must have" for your library.
It has settled many questions and doubtless will help
with more.
73 Dave S. AB5S

WA5CAB@cs.com wrote:
> 
> Groups,
> 
> For sale  - cover to cover reprint of SHIPS 242A, List of Naval Radio, Radar
> and Sonar Equipment Arranged By Navy Model Letters", January 1945.  152
> pages, 8-1/2x11, screw post bound (GBC or plastic finger binding available
> for $2.00 additional).
> 
> This is a reference handbook.  There are no photographs.  The handbook starts
> with an explanation of the Joint Army/Navy (JAN or AN) nomenclature system
> followed by the Navy Model Letter System.  Next is a listing of the two,
> three and four letter Navy Contractor Codes as of late 1944 (These codes were
> also used by the Signal Corps on the nameplates of many sets).  The balance
> of the book is an alphabetical listing of JAN, Navy and (only if procurred by
> USN) Signal Corps equipment.  Each entry consists of seven columns as
> follows: Model (revisions or later orders [suffix A, B, or -1, -2, etc.] in
> general are separate listings), Contractor(s), Year (of first contract or
> order but it isn't specified whether FY or CY), Normal Power Output,
> Emission, Frequency Range, Purpose -Remarks.
> 
> Book Rate shipping in the US will be $2.26. Insurance (optional) is an
> additional $1.30.
> 
> TCS and TCS-4 components are somewhat scarce, but not nonexistant.  I've
> often wondered why no one ever seemed to mention having any TCS components
> from TCS-1, -2 or -3 .  According to 242A, they were Lend Lease orders.
> 
> 73
> Robert Downs
> Houston
> <wa5cab@cs.com>