[Milsurplus] WW2 Interception Receivers

[Nick England]

Some of the details that got added here may be off, but in general
this looks reasonable to me

STATION CAST MISSION EQUIPMENT LISTING – July 1941
Equipment  -- Quantity
--------------------------------------
RAA-1 LF Receiver (10-1000 kHz) -- 3
RAE  Diversity Receiver (1000-30000 kHz) -- 1
RIP-5 (Typewriter) --  21
RAO HF Receiver (540-3000 kHz) -- 11
NC-110 SHF Receiver (30-300 MHz) -- 1
DT-1 HFDF Unit (2-30 MHz) --  2
Boehme Recorder -- 3
Boehme Tape Pullers -- 6
High-Speed Camera -- 1
Electron Oscillograph -- 2
NC-100 HF Receiver (540-30000 kHz) -- 1
RAS HF Receiver (190-30000 kHz) -- 6
DY HFDF Unit (540-30000 kHz) -- 1
HRO Receiver -- 1
RAK-2/RAL-2 Receiving Equipment -- 1
Generator (62.5 KVA) -- 1
RME  Receiver -- 4
Hallicrafters SX-25 Receiver -- 2
Meissner “Traffic Master” Receiver -- 2
RME DB-20 Preselector -- 11

Taken from the following document:
http://shfg.org/shfg/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4-Mucklow_Layout-11-final.pdf

cheers,
Nick K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

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> From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
> To: Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] WW2 Interception Receivers
>
> The NCVA has details of all the WW2 intercept stations - they have
> transcribed a lot of the official records and published them in their
> CRYPTOLOG newsletter..
> http://www.usncva.org/
> Station CAST (Station C) is what you're looking for.
> NCVA published a booklet -
> "Intercept Station C From Olongapo through the evacuation of
> Corregidor, 1929-1942."
> There are some reprints from that at
> http://corregidor.org/_admin/CTN_central/ctn_secret_index_composite.htm
>
> Nick K4NYW
>
> Station TARE, call sign NYW, info at - http://www.navy-radio.com/nyw.htm
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Joe Connor <joeconnor53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> At the beginning of WWII, the U.S. military had a radio-interception
>> station at the Cavite naval base in the Philippines. Later, that station was
>> moved to Malinta Tunnel on Corregidor until Corregidor fell. As I understand
>> it, this station intercepted and decoded Japanese signal traffic.
>>
>> What kind of receivers were used in those stations? I've read a lot about
>> the Philippine campaign but never saw much about the technical details of
>> these interception stations.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>                              Joe Connor
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