Bruce Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/12/2012 5:42 PM, Mike Monett wrote:
> Hey Nike: > Thanks for the link. I hadn't seen that equipment since 1958. > I was in the USAF. At 74yoa, my memory "ain't what it usta be". I > remember: AN/FPS-3 & 6, 6megawatts, and a QK-388 maggie. Not a lot > to show for for years. But it was good to see the gear, I had no > idea they were still using it for anything. > Thanks again: > Bruce A,. Hi Bruce, I was RCAF. After Uplands, I went to Sept Isles, Quebec, a DEW line site. They had a AN/FPS-27 Search Radar to look for Russian bombers coming over the North Pole. The idea was to shoot them down in Canada so the fallout from the nuclear explosions wouldn't reach the States: http://www.radomes.org/museum/equip/radarequip.php?link=fps-27.html This thing was a monster. Each component, like the power supply, transmitter, receiver, and operator consoles had its own floor. The "cut-away" picture in the link above is missing one entire floor. I forget the output power. I thought it was 25 megawatts but I can't find any spec. Anyway, I didn't work on the radar system, although all my budies did and I visited the place often. My job was maintaining the UHF communications gear in a separate building. I really enjoyed the two years there, then I was off to NATO in Europe for the rest of my tour. That was also fantastic, but the cold war could have turned radioactive at any moment, so you really had to watch your step. Those were the good old days:) Thanks, Mike Monett -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
