[Milsurplus] ] Re: RBF-3 (David Stinson)

[Mike Feher]

Navships 94200.1 shows a picture of the whole set up. The receiver on ebay
belonged in a cabinet along with the push button channel selector. It states
that the receiver/tuner combination weighed 235 pounds in the cabinet.
Shipping weight for the receiver is given as 353 pounds. It was manufactured
under a contract let in 1942 to Wells Gardner, at a cost of $3500 including
spares. It does also state that it is a shore based receiver for reception
of FM signals from sonoradio buoy transmitting equipment. It could be either
manually tuned or automatically select any of 10 preset channels by the push
button controller. - Mike 

 
Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960
 
 

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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ] Re: RBF-3 (David Stinson)

Well, if someone can send me the Item Number, I'll go and look at it (the 
900,116 entry includes one photo).  No sonobuoy info, though.

In a message dated 6/4/2005 5:50:06 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> >I finally located the RBF-3 entry in NAVSHIPS 900,116 (April, 1946).  
> >Says"The Model RBF-3 Equipment is designed to receive frequency modulated

> signals 
> >transmitted by the Sono Radio Buoys anchored offshore".  In other words, 
> it's a 
> >shore-based receiver for a harbor ASW system.  Tunes 70-90 MC with a 
> 10-Channel 
> >automatic tuner to automatically monitor groups of 6, 8 or 10 sonobuoys.

> >Receiver is CQW-46204.  Tuner is CQW-10177.  Antenna assembly is
CQW-66084. 
>  No 
> >TM reference given.
> 
> Interesting. So that thing listed on Epay, is it unified, accounting for
the 
> weight, or is
> that the tuner part only? I think the 10-presets business also accounts
for 
> the big
> weight. It would be interesting to know what the sonobuoys were and how 
> often
> the batteries were serviced, for example.
> 

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