[R-390] Matching transmitter?

[Thomas Chirhart]

While serving in the Navy on a destroyer as a Radioman 2nd we used the R-390-A with the WRT-2  "T-2" and an LS-474 bulkhead mounted speaker or headphones when operating CW in a net. Usually the RM1 would also monitor comms via speaker, you seldom saw the RMC/Chief Radioman unless he showed up to chew someone's unfortunate butt. We had R-1051's that were crap on CW, excellent on RATT. UCC-1 multichannel RX KWR-37 or the old Orestes KW-7 ship/shore URA-17 if my decades old memory is functioning... There was a URC-35 T-827?/R-1051 transceiver for HiComm SSB if I remember right..
73 Tom K4NCG

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On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> The R-390/URR and 390/URRA were general purpose HF receivers. Military
> installations sometimes had transmitters located 20 miles from the
> receivers to avoid interference. (the 40kw AN/FRT-40 was a medium size
> transmitter)
> Shipboard the R-390A's and other receivers were in one compartment
> (radio central) and transmitters were in another. The transmitters
> could be anything from 1930's CW rigs (TBK, TBL) to 1950's AM/FSK rigs
> (AN/SRT-14) to 1960's synthesized 1kw SSB xmtrs for RTTY (AN/WRT-2).
> And an intercept site would have a hundred receivers and no transmitters at all.
> So there was no really such concept as a "matching" transmitter.
> 
> HOWEVER, the standard AN/GRC-26D communications shelter was more like
> a ham shack - receivers, transmitter, and RTTY gear. Consisted of two
> R-390's and a T-368. This combo was probably relicated for many small
> comm sites. The T-368 is thus an excellent "matching transmitter"
> choice.
> http://www.rattrig.com/AN-GRC-26/26.htm
> 
> Now if you mean matching as in "made by Collins, looks somewhat like
> an R-390(), PTO controlled, etc." then there was an oddball prototype
> SSB exciter that used an R-390 as part of the freq synthesizer.
> T-???/URT George Rancourt wrote an article in Electric Radio about it
> - I think only one example is in existence.
> 
> DISCLAIMER - I've probably overlooked something completely obvious and
> my only excuse is that the New Year's party ended at 0230 this AM and
> I did my part to make sure there wasn't any leftover champagne.....
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick K4NYW
> 
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Robert Newberry <N1XBM at amsat.org> wrote:
>> Was there ever an official matching transmitter to the R-390? Best I can
>> tell from startpage searches is no. Although some people seem to like T-368
>> as a choice.
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