[TenTec] OT: Scopes

Steven Kline skline4 at verizon.net
Sun Feb 19 10:40:08 PST 2012


Yep me too Jim.  Spent two years at Keesler AFB (Cody Hall) learning how to troubleshoot, align, and maintain FPN-47 (60 mile approach ATC) and GPA-16 (10 mile precision approach ATC).  Still mostly tube radar when I left in 74.  Transistor replacements just coming in.

Cheers - Steve - W5JK


On Feb 19, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:

> I maintained air traffic control radar systems when I was in the Air 
> Force in the 70s.  The scope was our #1 troubleshooting tool.  Due to 
> the issues with timing and short-duration pulses, there was simply no 
> other piece of test equipment that would do the job.
> 
> In fact, in our first block of radar maintenance school, we studied a 
> built-in scope used in one of the WWII mobile radar units.
> 
> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
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