[Milsurplus] Navy Badged Collins Receivers

[Revcom]

Could be, they called them Atlas/agenas at the time,
 Had 12 sites/silos.  Never got them all fully going, had 
some problems with 1 or 2.  I do know the one near my
home town was ready as that sucker was out of the silo, 
clouds of "steam" LOX coming off it when Kennedy was
shot, I drove right past it and all the armed guards on road.

Rod
K0EQH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: "Revcom" <revcom at wbsnet.org>
Cc: "RICHARD SOLOMON" <w1ksz at q.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Navy Badged Collins Receivers


> Sorry, the link seems fouled up
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> There were no Atlas/Agenas there.
> 
> The Atlas was a liquid fueled ICBM and may well have been there, but the
> Agena was a Lockheed upper stage, used only for orbital missions. The
> Atlas boosters were removed from duty stations, refurbished by General
> Dynamics, and redesignated the SLV-3  (Space Launch Vehicle).
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(rocket_family)
> 
> Atlas/Agenas were ONLY launched from WTR and ETR (Vandenberg and Kennedy,
> respectively). Many were spy missions.
> 
> I had payloads on two of them.
> 
> Best,
> -John
> 
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> All the Collins gear that was in the Atlas/Ageena missle sites however
> got stripped out at sent to California.  [snip]
> 
>> Rod
>> K0EQH
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