[Milsurplus] Older USAF airborne receivers?

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

ALT signifies AIRBORNE COUNTERMEASURES TRANSMITTER.

That's all I know about it.  Came after my time, Mike.  The
transmitter I used to gig the CBers was AN/ALT-14.  I think
it covered 30-1000 MHz, but that's a LONNNGGGG time ago.

Mac - K2GKK
USAF, retired


----Original Message Follows----
From: mikea <mikea at mikea.ath.cx>
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Older USAF airborne receivers?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:53:49 -0600

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:38:36PM -0600, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
 > On the B-52Fs on which I was aircrew (ECM)
 > from 63-66, we had only the AN/ARC-65 HF set
 > which was a modified-for-USB AN/ARC-21 if I
 > remember correctly.  That was it other than
 > VHF and UHF AM for Air Traffic Control and
 > Command and Control purposes.
 >
 > Of course, I could receive from about 20 MHz
 > up through about 10 GHz with my ECM gear
 > but it certainly wasn't comm stuff.
 >
 > Now that statute of limitations has well run out,
 > I confess to jamming 11 meters with a noise
 > jammer.  I gave a few seconds of jamming and
 > then off.  Great fun to hear the CBers jabbering
 > about "where and what the source was!"

ThankYou!ThankYou!ThankYou!ThankYou!ThankYou!ThankYou!ThankYou!

AN/ALT-32, PAVE MINT, or something else (I don't necessarily need to
know what) more interesting?

--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin