[Milsurplus] Education needed

[jmfranke at cox.net]

For the SAGE system, search the Internet for "US Air Force SAGE Program." An interesting video is at https://archive.org/details/OnGuard1956  

John


---- Bill Carns <wcarns at austin.rr.com> wrote: 
> I have found an older Collins Radio manual for a 50L-1 receiver.  It is a
> UHF (covering most of the frequency range of the now UHF 200-400 MHz band)
> receiver but it is airborne FM. It mounts in a shock mount and uses the
> 614N-2 control head. It is a little smaller than the ARR-41, and in a more
> robust case.
> 
>  
> 
> I heard talk that it was part of some data system and made shortly after WW
> 2.  The program might have had a name like SAGE, but I can find no sign of
> it.
> 
>  
> 
> Does someone out there know what this radio did and where it fit in the
> grand scheme of things?
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone have one?
> 
>  
> 
> Bill Carns, N7OTQ (Trustee K0CXX)
> 
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