[Milsurplus] 1945 Navy Type Number list on line

[Mike Morrow]

Nick,

Thanks so much for the monumental effort to publish this extremely signifiicant and very rare document.  Thanks to Mike Hanz for obtaining and providing the original document.

I have a work-in-progress that presents detailed information on all 31 USAAC radio sets and all 28 USN radio sets that use receivers (BC-A*-183, RU-* types) based on the A.R.C. Model D.  This USN type-number information has been sufficient to resolve at least 10 history-of-development questions I had, just in the first few hours of reading.  I'll give some examples in a following post.

This document is a magnificent contribution and resource for anyone interested in the historical background of USN radio sets.  It does have a few omissions and errors that will likely be obvious to knowledgeable researchers.  Also, it appears that the USN type-number system did not start until 1931, so sets that are earlier are not mentioned.  Example:  The 1931 RU-1 is cataloged, but the original 1930 RU is not.  Some equipment is not cataloged at all.  Example:  My 1943 USN Type RAY-3 glide bomb control receiver is not listed (nor is any other RAY-* receiver).  However, the RAY-3 does not actually show the expected Cxx-46### type number either.

Thanks again, Nick and Mike!

Mike / KK5F

-----Original Message-----

>From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
>
>I have just finished scanning and posting NAVSHIPS 900,109 which is the
>1945 master list of all Navy Type (NT) Number electronic components. Many
>thanks to Mike Hanz for the loan of this rare document.
>
>It is a big doc (340MB of pdfs) but broken up into sections.
>No photos, just short descriptions and an indication of in what equipment
>it was first used. I ran OCR so the pdfs are searchable, but the type is
>fuzzy and small so the OCR didn't catch everything.
>
> http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/nt-900109.htm
>
>You can find things like CMK-26009 (speed key) or CAY-46078 (rcvr, part of
>RBM), along with thousands of control boxes, mounts, cables, resistors,
>capacitors, relays, transformers, etc.. It does not include complete
>equipments, like RBC, TBM, etc.
>
>Section IV is 175 pages of AN-numbered components like CX-181/ARC-1 (but
>again, not complete equipments like AN/ARC-1)
>
>Finally Section V contains Radar and Special Use Components with numbers
>like 23CWX and 46AYA
>
>Have fun,
>Nick England K4NYW
>www.navy-radio.com