New tow rope after about 40 years
I was a dry-land sailer. Signed up for the electronics program, they made me an ET-R (RADAR) I did well in A school so they sent me to GCA school and I ended up at NAS Miramar. Then the gobt went broke in 72 and I got extended, so ended up the rest of my tour at Miramar. Great place to be then. Got to see the F-14's as they came in, along with just about everything else. It was Navy then, not Marines.
Two of the RADAR I maintained, FPN-36 QUAD
Life at the RADAR shop. The black 64 and the limelight 70 are both mine. It was a 440-6
A young "me" pretending to adjust the RADAR in the trailer. This was the precision approach stuff out of what was originally a mobile truck radar known as CPN-4
An example of a PAR (precision approach RADAR) or GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) display. Bottom half is azimuth, IE looking down at the runway. Top half is elevation, IE glideslope. Range marks are adjusted before hand so that the closest one is across the 'touchdown' reflector.........a triangular metal reflector designed to show up prominently on the display
The cursors are not curved "in space" they get curved because of distortion in the electronics, and because the outer range is "expanded" for better visibility. This would be sort of like having a telescope that got more magnification as you went out further.
I was a dry-land sailer. Signed up for the electronics program, they made me an ET-R (RADAR) I did well in A school so they sent me to GCA school and I ended up at NAS Miramar. Then the gobt went broke in 72 and I got extended, so ended up the rest of my tour at Miramar. Great place to be then. Got to see the F-14's as they came in, along with just about everything else. It was Navy then, not Marines.
Two of the RADAR I maintained, FPN-36 QUAD
Life at the RADAR shop. The black 64 and the limelight 70 are both mine. It was a 440-6
A young "me" pretending to adjust the RADAR in the trailer. This was the precision approach stuff out of what was originally a mobile truck radar known as CPN-4
An example of a PAR (precision approach RADAR) or GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) display. Bottom half is azimuth, IE looking down at the runway. Top half is elevation, IE glideslope. Range marks are adjusted before hand so that the closest one is across the 'touchdown' reflector.........a triangular metal reflector designed to show up prominently on the display
The cursors are not curved "in space" they get curved because of distortion in the electronics, and because the outer range is "expanded" for better visibility. This would be sort of like having a telescope that got more magnification as you went out further.