[Milsurplus] Mystery Receivers AN/SRR-15, AN/SRR-16

[howard holden]

The Navy also used FRR-60s on land. But a good control operator could keep an R-390/CV-591 on freq well enough to copy 16 channel MUX. For voice, besides the 390s, shore stations also used KWM-2s. The FRR-59 was a bear to operate. We just started seeing them in 1967, and they spent as much time in the hands of the ETs as in our hands. Thje 390s and 1051s were much preferred.
 
Howie WB2AWQ ex-RM2
 

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:59:54 -0400
> From: navy.radio at gmail.com
> To: RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Mystery Receivers AN/SRR-15, AN/SRR-16
> 
> Oh the Navy had zillions of R-390A's with the TMC CV-591A SSB
> converters - often two CV-591A's so they could run ISB.
> 
> Also many installations had the National synthesized monster AN/WRR-2
> (shipboard) or AN/FRR-59 (shore). Their level of stability was needed
> for AN/UCC-1 VFCT multichannel RTTY signals with 85hz shift. I suspect
> the SRR-15 was a development contract for what became the
> WRR-2/FRR-59.
> 
> The RCA SRR-16 was quite different - a modified SRR-13A
> 
> All these got replaced by R-1051, of course.
> Nick
> 
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
> > The Navy must have pissed away ungodly amounts of money trying to develop a replacement for the R-390, the whole SRR-11/13 line were dogs subject to drift and service issues like the cast crank levers. Would speculate that the SRR-15/16 were versions of the 13 with SSB capabilities like a product detector and ability to apply AGC in SSB mode but would take a stretch to facilitate ISB operation in that chassis due to the addition of everything for second audio channel. It does bring up the question of what did the navy use before the introduction and distribution of the R-1051 family of receivers for SSB operation.
> > RF
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:05 PM
> > To: Military Surplus Mail List
> > Subject: [Milsurplus] Mystery Receivers AN/SRR-15, AN/SRR-16
> >
> > Howdy gang - Has anyone ever seen anything about these receivers?
> >
> > Radio Receiving Set, AN/SRR-15(XN-1) - 2-32mc, National; Contract
> > NObsr-63391 (1953), 2-32 mc
> > "The AN/SRR-15 is a general purpose communication receiver for shipboard use having extremely accurate tuning dial and frequency control. A second version will have, in addition, circuits and facilities for reception of single-sideband suppressed-carrier signals."
> > "Precision tuning with frequency accuracy determined by 100 kc frequency standard and frequency synthesizer ."
> >
> > Radio Receiving Set, AN/SRR-16 (XN-1) - 2-32 mc, Radio Corporation of America; NObsr-71333 (1956) "The AN/SRR-16 is the AN/SRR-13 receiver modified for single sideband capabilities which is accomplished by the use of Radio Receiver
> > R-441A/SRR-13 modified for external frequency control."
> >
> > cheers,
> > Nick
> > www.navy-radio.com
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