[Milsurplus] Wideband Receivers R-1039 and R-1151 ???

[Ray Fantini]

Don't know about the NSA but NASA used lots of old Ampex and similar wide bandwidth analog recorders for direct capture of the downlinks from things like the Microdyne receivers. The oldest Microdyne I have seen are the 1100 family but going to assume that maybe the R-1151 or 1039 may have been something prior to the Microdynes  like those old Nems Clarke thirteen hundred series radios? 
I have worked with lots of the Microdyne stuff but never anything as old as the Nems Clarke radios and although it makes no sense always wanted to have one of their old receivers and maybe set it up with a mechanical We-Fax system of an example of how that use to be back in the days of the vacuum tube.  Fortunately I have been lucky so far that the receivers that I have seen at ham fest and on EBay are selling for more than I would want to pay for something that's  going to eat up the little floor space that I have in the shop now.

Ray F/KA3EKH
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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
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Subject: [Milsurplus] Wideband Receivers R-1039 and R-1151 ???

I'm reading a NSA report about magnetic recorders for SIGINT.
https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/NSA_Signal.pdf

It references R-1039 and R-1151 as receivers with two 100kc bandwidth outputs feeding some recorders. Probably means R-1151/GLQ but I can't anything about R-1039/??
(Can't find out anything about R-1151/GLQ either for that matter!)

Does anyone know anything they are willing to share?

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

Humor Note - one of the authors is profiled thus:
[redacted] retired from NSA in 1992. He served four years as [redacted] and as [redacted] for the first [redacted] remote system on [redacted] during 1974-75.
Note - From his photo you can see he is wearing a dark coat, striped shirt, striped tie, and has a large white oval for a head.
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