[Milsurplus] Service Life

[J. Forster]

NASA just launched the new Mars Rover a couple of days ago...  on a 1950s
vintage Atlas booster.

-John

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>
> The FAA used both military communication (and radar) equipment.  At St.
> Simons Island, GA when there was a Flight Service Station (FSS) at Malcolm
> McKinnon airport we had an old TUQ still operating in the early 70s,
> actually it was still there when I transferred to the Memphis Long Range
> Radar in early 70.  The FAA still had military "FPS" series long range
> radars up in the late 90s and still may have some for all I know.  They
> had under gone lots of modifications however.
> Jim   de wd4air
>
>> From: WA5CAB at cs.com
>> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:52:56 -0500
>> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Service Life
>>
>> OK.  But that's a civilian application and almost certainly a commercial
>> transmitter.
>>
>> In a message dated 11/27/2011 17:47:38 PM Central Standard Time,
>> kargo_cult at msn.com writes:
>> > How about this?
>> > LF beacon in Montana, 1938 transmitter, decommissioned ~1976, maybe
>> later,
>> > not before? Something like "TZF"  ( FAA nomenclature, still have the
>> info
>> > somewhere. )
>> > Told to me by former FAA comm tech.
>> > -Hue
>>
>> Robert Downs - Houston
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