[Premium-Rx] USS Missouri Photo - Equipment ID?

Terry O' watkins-johnson at terryo.org
Tue Apr 22 19:45:20 EDT 2008


The black radio above the big CRT on the right in the photo captioned 
"The starboard side of Radio Central..." is a Watkins-Johnson RS-111 
receiver. 

Popular Communications will be running a story I wrote about those 
receivers in the June 2008 issue.

Terry O'
http://watkins-johnson.terryo.org


Brooke Clarke wrote:
> Hi:
>
> On the ARRL web page for the USS Missouri,
> http://www2.arrl.org/news/features/2003/08/27/1/?nc=1
> there is this photo:
> http://www2.arrl.org/news/features/2003/08/27/1/B-lrg.jpg
> The page text mentions the Teletype Model 40 and shows a photo of it's 
> CRT, but these CRTs are very different and seem to be related to HF 
> radio equipment, not RADAR.
>
> What equipment has those CRTs?  What is the other equipment?
> R-105x receivers, WJ receivers, HP Spectrum Analyzer, EIP counter 
> sitting on some sort of crypto box with red crypto patch panel just to 
> it's left.  A number of commercial premium receivers.
>
> Gibson Girl on aisle end looks like it's for museum show, and was not 
> there when the room was operational.
>



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