[Milsurplus] Mystery item

Ray Fantini RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu
Wed Jul 26 09:11:38 EDT 2017


Looks like a lot of the ground work on developing the cameras and technique that was deployed on the Corona program, KH-1 thru KH-6 was developed with these payloads. At the Air Force Museum in Dayton they have one of the C-119 catch planes that was used for recovering the payloads during Corona and it is outfitted with a set of VHF yagies on the nose to DF on the payload. Would be curious to know the frequencies and going to assume it was in the 200 to 400 MHz band from seeing the antennas. They have a great display in the new Air & Space gallery on the Corona program with the vehicle, reentry capsule and a lot of other information along with the recovery aircraft. The Smithsonian museum Dulles annex has a good amount of the Corona material too, amazing how much has come out after declassifying the program back in the nineties.

Ray F/KA3EKH

From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via Milsurplus
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 1:34 AM
To: navyradiocom at gmail.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Mystery item

Read the comments after the article ...  seems like really not a  mystery anymore...
I knew of these  in my youth... that is the principle of them and  the existence of them but never  got  to see one..   good  to  finally  close the last  part of the loop.  Ed#

In a message dated 7/25/2017 7:45:41 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, navyradiocom at gmail.com<mailto:navyradiocom at gmail.com> writes:
The link below is for an interesting CBC New Brunswick new article .......... there's a radio involved and it is probably military, anybody have an thoughts?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/the-thing-woods-parachute-mystery-1.4219960
Regards to all.
Tom
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