Titan I used radar for guidance to engine cutoff.. And a RemRand Agena
computer in the LCF to do the heavy thinking. Lots and lots of vacuum
tubes. Cabinets and cabinets of 'em. And drum memory... Geez that was a
long time ago. SAC, 451SMW Lowery AFB.
Gil, W1RG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Miller" <JimMiller@STL-Online.Net>
To: <keith@dutson.net>; "TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
No radar on Minuteman - all inertial guidance, Sperry gyros and solid
state
control to the nozzles - once it was disconnected from the hole, it was
GONE.
73, de Jim KG0KP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Dutson" <kjdutson@earthlink.net>
To: "TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
Might have had a klystron and small magnetron for radar guidance. Did
you
see any waveguides?
Keith NM5G
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:51 PM
To: Steve Katz; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
You might be right. Everything I saw was solid state but there may have
been something in there that was tube. It was the Minuteman system that
we
were installing.
73, de Jim KG0KP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Katz" <stevek@jmr.com>
To: "'Jim Miller'" <JimMiller@STL-Online.Net>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: RE: [BULK] - Re: [TowerTalk] Vacuum tube 100 years old today
>
> > I was in missile class in the Air Force in 1963 and the lab and
> > course
was
> > entirely in tubes even though the missile was entirely in
> > transistors.
> > The
> > adaptation was very short (minutes, maybe and hour) and said that
> > transistors worked like tubes except at lower voltages and power
levels.
> > That was all there was to transistors !!! Not bad really for a class
that
> > hadn't been rewritten yet (and that may have been all the instructor
knew
> > at
> > that time).
> >
> > 73, de Jim KG0KP
> [Steve Katz] I'll bet the missle wasn't "all transistors" in 1963.
> The guidance and targeting systems used high voltage microwave tubes
> throughout the 1970s, including SAMs and AAMs. Of course, a lot of
those
> late 1950s designs didn't actually reach production levels until the
> seventies (no kidding). We were building (Army) Hawks designed in '63
at
> Raytheon/Martin (forebody/aftbody) in 1978; the Patriot didn't go into
full
> production until after that, and its acquisition system still used
> tubes...ditto the Sidewinder, Sparrow, etc. -WB2WIK/6
>
>
>
>
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