[Milsurplus] seek info and connectors for "sceaming Mimi"

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Clete & Group,

99-44/100% of everyone I've ever heard talk about the Navy's use of MG-sets 
either said they couldn't understand why they did (if the speaker was polite) 
or said the Navy always did things the stupid Navy way (if they were poorly 
educated AH's).  But the situation at the beginning of WW-II was that the Navy 
had ships and craft with 12 VDC, 24 VDC, 115 VDC, 230 VDC, 110 VAC, 208 VAC, 220 
VAC and 440 VAC main power busses (at least) all in service.  I don't know 
for sure when the last DC ship was decommissioned but it was certainly after the 
end of WW-II.  Since some of the equipment had to be usable on all of those 
ships and all of the equipment had to be usable on some of the ships, it was 
both cheaper and easier to design and support an MG-set and buy an assortment of 
motors and main starter relays than it was to design, build and stock a bunch 
of different supplies.

In a message dated 11/13/2006 5:30:43 PM Central Standard Time, 
whitaker at pa.net writes: 
> About motor-generators.  On Kwajalein in '51 or '52 when we
> were preparing for the H-Bomb test, USAF was installing their
> HF tx and rx sites, but Navy, who had already occupied the island
> since WWII already had what HF they needed.  Navy gear was
> different, and interesting because ours was all spin-offs of commercial
> equipment, 96C's and T-4's for instance.  The Navy transmitter site
> was a large Quonset full of motor-generator powered transmitters.
> Maybe about 15 or 20.   Sticking cheese in ones ears helped.  Another
> thing, seems most of their transmitter tuning knobs was a 5" lever
> riding in a circular guide that had adjustable stops on it.  For Pretuning.
> And QSY in a hurry.   When I got with AT&T I learned that the
> care and feeding of a motor-generator is a study of its own.


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