[Premium-Rx] Help with id'ing an antenna multicoupler

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Hi

The /BRC should indicate Submarine use. Charleston was the home of both FBM 
and Fast Attack submarines. I would suggest that this probably say service 
on subs and was probably connected to the trailing wire antenna with the HF 
tip installed.

I was stationed on subs out of Charleston and still know some people at 
Spawars, the new name for Navelex. Will see what I can dig up.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV

At 04:21 PM 12/05/04, Llgpt at aol.com wrote:
>Group,
>
>Recently acquired a U.S. Navy multicoupler. This is a real beauty, and 
>runs very cool unlike the Sylvania CU-1280 I had a few years ago. 
>Description as follows:
>
>Nomenclature tag on front panel reads:
>
> 
>Serial No. A4
>                                                       29355-0135929
>                                                   MF/HF Multicoupler
>                                                       CU-2279/BRC
>                                       Des.Act.: Navalex Ctr. Charleston, SC
>                                          Contract   N00612 - 84 - D - 0105
>
>Standard Rack Mount, 3.5" height. 10" deep from back of front panel. Solid 
>state. beautifully built, deutz fasteners on top cover.
>
>Has two channels, A & B each has an N antenna input, 4 bnc outputs and 1 
>test bnc output.
>
>Covers 100 khz to 100 mhz, perfdormance drops off beloow 100 kc and above 
>100 mc (oops, khz, I'm old) Appears to have unity (no gain) when inserted 
>between antenna and receiver, and 6db gain when "Amo On" button is 
>engaged. Each channel Amp On button is lit by leds, and has a red 
>"overload" section on the tiop half of the buttton. A friend obtained two 
>of these off the E place and offered me one. Very quiet and a beautifully 
>crafted piece of equipment.
>
>However, I cannot find any documentation anywhere on it. I work for the 
>Federal Government and have friends in supply and logistics attempt to run 
>down the contract number with no luck.
>
>Seems interesting the Destroyer Squadrons out of Charleston would have 
>purchased these on their own contract?
>
>Hope someone can shed some light on these.
>
>And, no, there aren't anymore available.
>
>Les Locklear
>Gulfport, Ms.
>
>
>
>"42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot."
>
>
>Steven Wright
>
>
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