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To: VeniVidiVici

Vy cool DF set. W/R-390, no less.

My EE department built the first Wullenweber in the Americas, out of a dismantled installation from Germany.

I never visited the array (long since torn down), but I did see a goniometer in our machine shop. As I recall, it was a cube about 2 feet on an edge, with a big knob and compass rose on the top, and a jillion coax connectors around the sides.

The EE department got to maintain the array and to use it for various purposes; but when the Navy came in to use it, they kicked all the EE guys out. Not enough clearance, I guess.


86 posted on 06/07/2010 6:22:07 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: Erasmus
Vy cool DF set. W/R-390, no less.

I want to say I was still using R-390s at least till the mid-80s. Heck, you can probably find them in use today in some gov't backwater.

And I think we even had to adjust that goniometer for the AN/TRD-4 when setting up the antenna array. Long time now though :-)

96 posted on 06/07/2010 11:01:01 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? - OBAMA)
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