[Milsurplus] Re: TS-403B/U Signal Generator

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

AN/APR-9() was standard ECM receiver
in B-52B through F models.  It covered
1.0-10.0 plus KMC (as labeled on panel)
if I recall.  AN/APR-14 (if memory serves)
was the 30-1000 MCS receiver we used.

LONGGGGG time ago.  I left SAC in 1966
after some 20 or so B-52F missions from
Anderson AFB, Guam (including the first).

The G and H models had better ECM gear
and almost all of the D through F models
later got the latest good thing except for
a few unlucky wings that got sent over
for Linebacker with old nuke war stuff.
They got clobbered big time.  Some folks
should have been hanged for that, but
the brass kept repeating mistakes that
everyone knew had been made in WW II
such as Ploesti raid.

Best regards,

Mac, K2GKK/5
USAF (1961-1981)



----Original Message Follows----
From: "neil277 at juno.com" <neil277 at juno.com>
To: cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org
CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: TS-403B/U Signal Generator
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 22:52:48 GMT

Marty,

I don't think so. I can't remember ever working on Navy receivers. (I
think the AN/APR-9 was AF - but the Navy may have used them too.) The
system I'm thinking about was a series of tuners about half the size of
a footlocker each, plus the CRT unit & power supplies. The pre-selector
cavities were tuned by a cam/piston arrangement with an arc of 10-12
inches. And there was a tracking adjustment about every 1/4 inch. A
real bear to align. The whole system probably weighed as much or more
than two BC-610's.



-- "Marty Reynolds" <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org> wrote:

Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 17:26:45 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: TS-403B/U Signal Generator
From: "Marty Reynolds" <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org>
To: "neil277 at juno.com" <neil277 at juno.com>
Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
 >
 > Back in the early 60's our EW Repairman used them to align ELINT
 > receivers like the AN/APR-9 and something really ancient that I think
 > was the AN/TLR-1 or 2.

might that hav been the SPR-2?