[Milsurplus] Ray's mystery box

[Bob Wilder]

Perry, et al:  I can attest to the methods used to number equipments.  In 
1951 I worked for a company that installed a AN/CPS-5 radar at Syracuse 
(Hancock Field) for the 108th
AC&W Squadron of the NYANG.  Two of the PPI's were S/N 1 and S/N 2 from the 
R&D division
of General Electric at Liverpool, NY.  No other nomenclature was on the 
units as they were
original prototypes. Once in production they were given regular numbers 
which I no longer remember. The same thing happened again when I worked out 
of the AN/CPS-5 Lashup site
on Red Cliff, Newfoundland. S/N 3 showed up with no other numbers except 
the prototype numbers.  Early on in the progress of new equipment you will 
find strange numbers and in most cases these are various prototype which 
were shipped to the services in lieu of production run equipment just to 
the systems operation so that beta testing can be done in   a real world 
situation.


Hope this helps

Bob, AF2HD



At 04:01 PM 8/30/2004 -0400, w8au at sssnet.com wrote:

>At 02:32 PM 08/30/2004, William Donzelli wrote:
>>I have my doubts on that. I think that if a design went so far as to get a
>>real Navy model number, it was real. This is my experience with the 1930s
>>(and before) stuff - nearly everything is accounted for, even if only one
>>or two were built.
>>I have come across a few things that are listed as "never built" - I think
>>the REB is one of them.
>
>Then there is the case of the same receiver getting two designations...
>RBM (HF),   and RBS.      (beach radio vs. shipboard)
>And, of course, the RBM could be either of two receivers..  (LF or HF)
>
>The collective research ability of Bill and other list members will 
>continually be bringing
>up these anomalies....  will forensic science some day get to the point of
>being able to delve into minds long passed to uncover the reasons for 
>these things?
>
>
>Perry     w8au
>
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