[MRCA] A URT-23 and a URC-35 walk into a bar...

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

In my 13 years as an ET, I worked on TCS, AN/WRT-1, AN/WRT-2, AN/WRC-1, 
AN/URC-35, AN/URC-32 and briefly AN/URT-23 (and a bunch of other things) but 
never encountered an AN/URT-24.  Was it by chance just a T-827 with an 
AM-3007?

Robert Downs - Houston
CWO4 USN Ret'd.
1964-1996 RM/ET/MN
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In a message dated 03/13/2014 17:02:04 PM Central Daylight Time, 
k4ncgva at gmail.com writes: 
> I was on the USS Ingram DD-938 in the mid 70's we had the WRC-1 and kept 
> it on Hi-Comm 7X24 set to a clear HF freq that changed based on 
> propagation, high day/low night. We would often get an Exercise White Pinnacle message 
> via fleet broadcast and were timed to see how long it took to reply using 
> our daily changing callsign and authentication table. 
> The WRC-1 served a purpose but the WRT-2 transmitter combined with an 
> associated R-1051 was the primary TX for HF ship-to-shore using KW-7/Orestes. 
> The URT-23 was in Aux Radio aft in the same space as my teletype repair 
> space, also my GQ station, also my ham shack with a Kenwood TS-520 and 4BTV 
> mounted on the aft mast. Lucky for me my skipper was a mustang Commander and 
> former radioman (CDR Samples -SK) he liked to phone patch home and it came 
> in handy for patches between new moms and new dads. The URT-24 was just a 
> 100wTX. 
>  The 1051 was great for receiving the fleet broadcast but sucked for CW. 
> We came out of FRAM where the comms suite was upgraded from R-390's to 
> 1051's BUT they left two 390's on top of the MF receiver op position (for 
> listening to AFRS-morale) so I could use the 390 for CW ops which were by then 
> just drills and since we still had to keep the 500kc log the mill was still 
> there along with the CW key and jack for my Vibroplex.
> The WRT-1 MF TX was removed once we were no longer required to monitor 
> 500kc and only keep a log and not required to have an MF TX capability. (If we 
> heard a distress we sent a message with details to NAVCAMS and that was 
> it) The T-1 was removed and a satcom station put in its place. 
> I was selected/directed to go to teletype school, it was a tough school 
> and being a teletype repairman was a collateral duty on this ship and the 
> pro-pay was next to nothing, like sea pay...
> I know I could walk into the radio rooms of a FRAM Forest Sherman class 
> tin can and fire up the gear... My RM1 was a former instructor at RM-A school 
> and was the meanest-toughest sob RM in DESRON-14 but knew his crap, I 
> hated his guts BUT learned more from him than anyone else. We still exchange 
> Xmas cards and he's the old guy, not me... Funny how you remember the names 
> of your toughest school teachers and forget the nice ones.... Hummm
> 73
> Tom K4NCG
> Sent from my iPad
> 
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