[Milsurplus] IFF unit?

Moe Fretz tubetester at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 17:15:19 EST 2010


Thanks for all the replies and also for all the links to follow up on.
Still trying to determine it's exact SCR number, but in time we will figure
that out.
Thanks again    Moe

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Moe Fretz
Collection and Preservation
Of Canadian Tube Radios, Communication Equipment,Vintage Ham gear and
Military Radios.

http://www.radiopreservationguy.com/

Don't part them out ---- Restore them.

Cambridge
Ontario Canada


On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:10 PM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:

>
> look at
>
> _http://www.smecc.org/wpe_files/wpeC.jpg_
> (http://www.smecc.org/wpe_files/wpeC.jpg)
> this is fro the museums website here.
>
> see  the iff antenna is larger than the radar antenna!
>
> We have  a book on this  unit  but it will not fit on my  little scanner...
> it is a big folio thing.
>
> does anyone know if it has been scanned out there somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
>
> See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org/)
>
> >
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 11/9/2010 9:48:37 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
>  kk5f at earthlink.net writes:
>
> > It  was thought to be a SCR 595   Not sure?
>
> Fred Chesson's site  says that the BC-1293 is part of AN/CPX-1, an
> air-transporable
> Mark III IFF  interrogator system.
>
> >From http://pages.cthome.net/fwc/AN-C.HTM  :
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> CPX-1*   Mk-III IFF Set U/W CPS-1, MPM-17 TM 11-1353,1453,1553  1944
> BC-1267    CPX-1 R-T, 157-187 MC, 1 KW PP
> AB-75/   CPX-1 Ant. Tower, 25 ft.
> AB-76/CPX  CPX-1 Ant. Pedestal  Mount for AN-154-A
> BC-1293    CPX-1 Ind. (5CP1 CRT)
> CG-274/CPX  CPX-1 RG-8/U Cable  Pedestal to FM-80/
> CX-587/CPX CPX-1 RG-8/U  Cable  U/W AB-76/CPX
> CX-809/U   CPX-1 Power  Cable
> CY-366-368/    CPX-1 Cable & Spare Parts  Chests
> CY-369/    CPX-1 Oscilloscope Case
> CY-370/     CPX-1 Calibrator Chest
> CY-371/CPX Chest for I-222-A Test Set  P/O  RC-384, CPX-1,2
> CY-375/CPX Transit Chest
> FM-80/     CPX-1 Eqpt Frame
> I-221-A    CPX-1  Range Calib.
> I-222-A    CPX-1 Signal Gen.
> MX-502/     CPX-1 Truck Mounting Kit
> MX-526     CPX-1 Tuning Dial Mod.  Kit
> TS-2/      CPX-1 Range  Calib.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> The  SCR-595-A is the most common Mark III *aircraft* transponder.   It
> actually has USN nomemclature as the ABK-*, even in USAAF service.   It's
> about 35 pounds and, of course, much much much smaller than the  ground
> interrogator system.  The other common WWII IFF transponder was  the
> SCR-695-A,
> (BC-966-A) which was a Mark III/G IFF.  Anyways, what  you have is neither
> of these.
>
> Mike /  KK5F
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