[Milsurplus] Alexanderson alternator on Xmas eve

[L Ritta]

How many units made up the console? are 
there any pictures?

Lee VK5ABC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kolb" 
<jlkolb at jlkolb.cts.com>
To: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at arrl.net>; 
"Milsurplus" 
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Alexanderson 
alternator on Xmas eve


> At 11:33 AM 12/9/2007, Mike Morrow 
> wrote:
>>Thirty years ago, US submarines used 
>>specialized limited-coverage AN/BRR-3 
>>sets (14 - 30 kHz) for their critical 
>>VLF communications needs.  They also 
>>had one of these wider-coverage 
>>AN/WRR-3 sets, even though surfaced 
>>submarines weren't required to guard 
>>500 kHz.  I've never seen the AN/BRR-3 
>>in surplus.  It would not be as useful 
>>(except to copy SAQ) as the AN/WRR-3, 
>>though it would be an interesting 
>>relic of the Cold War, just like those 
>>AN/WLR-6 receiver modules that show up 
>>from time-to-time.  The AN/WLR-6 was a 
>>signals intelligence collecting 
>>console installed on many US fast 
>>attack submarines during the Cold War.
>
> I've got a pair of the R-1449/WLR-6(V) 
> receivers, so could use any info 
> anyone has on them.
> http://www.jlkolb.cts.com/site/1449.htm
>
> One of the two has a strange problem 
> with images from CW stations
> just above 4 MHz coming through.  The 
> input low pass or bandpass filter
> is being bypassed, somehow.  Any 
> suggestions?
>
> John
> KK6IL
>
>
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