[Milsurplus] Active Military Service Life

[C.Whitaker]

de WB2CPN
Most of the "military" equipment that FAA used had never been
in use by the military.  FAA didn't buy surplus, they got it the
same place the military people did.  Sometimes relabeled,
sometimes not.  The other way around, in '48 when the Berlin
Airlift was hot and heavy, we installed a FAA VAR, and a FAA
Localizer, near a city in the British Zone of Germany.  I spend
half a year with them things.
Trivia:  The Localizer was at Wolfenbuttel, about 6 miles from
the VAR at Volkenrode.   Both near Braunschweig (Brunswick
to the Brits).  USAF didn't have anything that would do what we
had to do.  (The localizer was not for landing aircraft.)
EOT
73  Clete


On 11/27/2011 10:19 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> OK.  But service with the FAA doesn't count as active military service,
> whether you're talking about people or equipment.  Both are surplus after they
> leave the military.
>
> In a message dated 11/27/2011 20:16:37 PM Central Standard Time,
> dufferjames at hotmail.com writes:
>> 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
>>
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