[Milsurplus] Ray's mystery box

Mike Morrow kk5f at earthlink.net
Sun Aug 29 13:22:34 EDT 2004


Eric wrote of the ASB:

>...The unit was the receiver for a ~400mc radar ranging pair, of which the
> tx would be an APT-5 or such...

Eric,

The USN's ASB set included both an ASB-nomenclatured receiver and an ASB-nomenclatured transmitter.  I have the operators manual for the ASB-5 somewhere, which shows the interconnections between components.

The AN/APT-5 is an unrelated countermeasures (jamming) transmitter.

73,
Mike /KK5F




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