[Milsurplus] Re: AN/WRT-2

[John Kolb]

To add to Robert's remarks, aboard the Com7thFleet flagships, USS 
Providence and
USS Oklahoma City, the transmitter room had 8 WRT-2's, 4 URC-32's, and 1 TMC
1 KW transmitter. We had a single receiver in the room, a WRR-2. Two WRT-2's
were keyed 24/7 transmitting 8 channel mux RTTY back to the nearest shore
station. The receivers in Radio Central were mostly R-390's, a few 
paired with CV-157 for
mux reception.  Time - 1963-1965.

John
http://www.jlkolb.cts.com


At 08:26 AM 10/14/2005, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>Ken,
>
>I worked on those rather extensively while on Active Duty in the late 60's.
>Pretty reliable running 24/7/365.  But they weigh a ton (almost literally),
>and input power is 220/440 3 Phase.  Mostly tube, if I'm not 
>confusing it with
>something else, 807W (or the 4-digit number) finals, 3B28 rectifiers   A few
>discrete transistors in the 1 MHz reference oscillator and part of 
>the divider
>chain.
>
>Nice to look at but I wouldn't buy one.  Although not as reliable in 24/7
>operation, the AN/URC-32 has similar specs and is a lot lighter.  If 
>I wanted a
>heavy shipboard transmitter of late 50's/early 60's look, I'd go with the
>slightly earlier AN/SRT-14, although I never actually worked on one 
>of those, only
>operated it.
>
>The manual on the WRT-2 is NAVSHIPS 0967-073-3010 (and probably other
>numbers).  I have one but it runs to some 900 pages, a significant 
>fraction of which
>are foldouts.
>
>As to what receiver it would have been paired with, except for
>transmitter-receiver sets like the TCS, or transmitter-receivers 
>like the AN/WRC-1 or
>AN/URC-35, the Navy didn't "pair" transmitters and receivers in 
>general day-to-day
>operations.  I don't know what the practices were on ships built in the 60's
>and later but prior to that back to I'd say 1939 at least, the typical
>organization was that Radio Central had receiver and transmitter 
>transfer switchboards.
>  It also had some of the receivers and some of the operating positions.
>Transmitters and receivers were patched to one or more operating 
>positions.  The
>radios themselves might be scattered all over the ship, especially the
>transmitters and VHF and later UHF radios.
>
>In a message dated 10/14/2005 1:15:23 AM Central Daylight Time,
>kgordon at moscow.com writes:
> > What can anyone tell me about the subject transmitter? By examining
> > one I saw tonight, I know that it covers 2 - 30 Mhz, and outputs multiple
> > modes including ISB, AM, CW, FSK, has a built-in FSKeyer, etc.
> >
> > But I need to know how much one might have to pay for such a
> > transmitter, how reliable it might be, how difficult to find, whether
> > manuals are available for it, power output, input voltages/currents
> > required, availability of any special components, etc.
> >
> > I assume that it was sometimes paired with the AN/WRR-2 receiver?
> >
> > Would it be worth having?
> >
>
>73
>
>Robert Downs - Houston
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