[Milsurplus] Info wanted for novel - Navy Radio in Sept 1950

[Rob Flory]

I think the RDO was more oriented towards radar countermeasures than
communications intercept.
RF

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> wrote:

> On 21 Apr 2017 at 19:35, Rob Flory wrote:
>
> > Radio intercept equipment would include RBB and RBC receivers with
> RBU/RBV panoramic
> > adapters  for HF and for VHF, the RBK receiver with RBW panoramic
> adapter.  The panoramic
> > adapter shows the presence of signals over a wide band, showing the
> operator targets to tune
> > into for investigation.
>
> What about the RDO and its plug-ins and its panoramic adapter? Was it too
> out-dated by
> then?
>
> I have two of those and a bunch of the plug-ins. They are simply beautiful
> inside, but they
> weigh....A LOT... I do not have the panoramic adapter, though.
>
> BTW, I found an old QST magazine, like December of 2013 or something like
> that, in which
> it was mentioned that you provided a working TBX-6 for the Code Talkers
> event.
>
> Good on ya, Rob.
>
> I have a TBX-8 transceiver but no other bits, not even the cover. And the
> power connector
> pins had been soldered to before I got it.
>
> Ken W7EKB
>
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