[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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