[Milsurplus] Collins control - URC-32 maybe URT-23 - puzzled

[David Ross]

Nick & the gang -

  The Collins P/N 777-1899-000 on your mystery control unit corresponds 
to a C-4658/SRC-16 antenna coupler controller.

  Not only the KWT-6 & URC-32 used this hinge-out rackmount scheme -  
there was an automatically-tuned variant of the URC-32 which used the 
ARC-58 RF deck & synthesizer and was built in this same hinge-out rack 
-  it had an internal rotary inverter to make 400~ power for the 
servosystems.  Also built in that same KWT-6 style rack was a 
manually-tuned frequency-diversity receiver with two RF decks & two IF 
strips.
  I have the control head for the automatically-tuned URC-32 -  it 
amounts to an ARC-58 control head built into the same hinge-out 
rackmount enclosure -  it is maybe 6" tall.  Also have seen these same 
hinge-out enclosures with RCA patent decals on them, so maybe Collins 
licensed other manufacturers to build some of the later variants.

  I don't know much about the SRC-16 but I understand that it was a mix 
of URG-0 (URC-32 & ARC-58) and URG-1 family parts.  I believe the SRC-16 
was very large -  Collins referred to it as a "Communications Center".  
I hope you can find the rest of it...

73
Dave Ross    N7EPI



Nick England wrote:
> I have also acquired a Collins control unit which includes a 1kw directional
> coupler, bandswitch, and speaker. It had a sticky tag on it saying URT-23
> but I don't understand that because it doesn't look like it belongs to a
> URT-23 (and why a speaker?).
>
> It looks like it belongs to a URC-32 (Collins KWT-6) - has the same sort of
> hinged rack mounting, but none of the URC-32 photos I can find show anything
> like this.
> Photos at http://www.virhistory.com/navy/puzzlers.htm 
>
> any info greatly appreciated,
> cheers,
> Nick
> www.virhistory.com/navy