No worries, there are LOTS of different connectors, easy to get cross-connected... ;-)
The many ships I have been on always have the ET Shop near Main Comm. Probably a reason for that... ;-)
I've seen lots of different patch panels, of many types. Some surely
had N-connectors, many did not. It's too broad of a category to
generalize the connector types.
I certainly didn't see anything in the early 1960's... LOL To be
honest, most of the patch panels in my Navy were pushbuttons which electronically connected particular radios to a "trunk line" which then connected them to the appropriate antenna coupler. That panel was
called the "SAS" panel as I recall. In the actual transmitter rooms,
there were often many receptacles for a particular antenna, and you
would "latch" in a cable with a latch/lock mechanism on the end of it to connect to a certain HF transmitter, for example. Also you often had to crank some handles on a coupler to get maximum efficiency out of the
antenna (reducing VSWR "reflections").
... Is fire supposed to shoot out of it like that!?
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Ed Vance wrote to Gamgee <=-
I certainly didn't see anything in the early 1960's... LOL To be
honest, most of the patch panels in my Navy were pushbuttons which electronically connected particular radios to a "trunk line" which then connected them to the appropriate antenna coupler. That panel was
called the "SAS" panel as I recall. In the actual transmitter rooms,
there were often many receptacles for a particular antenna, and you
would "latch" in a cable with a latch/lock mechanism on the end of it to connect to a certain HF transmitter, for example. Also you often had to crank some handles on a coupler to get maximum efficiency out of the
antenna (reducing VSWR "reflections").
I often visited the Transmitter compartment(s).
Occasionally I would hear a call on the intercom asking to change freq
on one of the TXs and would do it for Main Comm.
The SRT-14 was my favorite rig.
I read its manual a lot of times.
There were WRT's and one TMC in that compartment with the SRT's.
Up above the Main Deck inthe UHF Room I liked the AN/GRC-17,I think it
was 17 maybe 29, too long ago for Ed's Head (C) TM to remember.
It had a 4-65A in it. I liked that tube more than the 4-400 in the
SRT's.
Back on topic, The panel I referred to was in Radio One , next to Main Comm. It let different Antenn be used with the Receivers in Radio One.
My reason for writing Main Comm earlier is because I served as a Flag Messenger and was in there mainly.
I will never get to become a Mister Know It All how much I try.
Iwonder if Amphenol has an adapter t
fit that antenna of yours to the
connector on your radiogear?
I think you were a generation or so ahead of me. The HF transmitters I worked on were called URT-23's, with R-1051 HF receivers. UHF
transceivers were called WSC-3's with some older SRC-9's. I forget the
names of the various patch panels and antenna couplers.
Nice. The names of the Comm spaces varied by what class of ship you
were in. The stuff you mention sounds like Carrier stuff.... :-)
Drink to the Foam!
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Ed,
That's because Bullwinkle J. Moose already has the job!! <G>
Daryl
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Re: N connectors
By: Ed Vance to phigan on Sun Nov 16 2025 09:43 pm
Yeah, I've got adapters... and I even
have a decent cable with N on both
ends, but it's not very long. My issue
is that from what I recall, every
adapter makes you lose 1db of gain.
If I ever want to seriously use the
antenna with one of my radios, I'll
have to make a custom cable.
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Ed Vance wrote to Gamgee <=-
I think you were a generation or so ahead of me. The HF transmitters I worked on were called URT-23's, with R-1051 HF receivers. UHF
transceivers were called WSC-3's with some older SRC-9's. I forget the names of the various patch panels and antenna couplers.
Nice. The names of the Comm spaces varied by what class of ship you
were in. The stuff you mention sounds like Carrier stuff.... :-)
Yes, I served aboard Carriers, 4 of them.
I was in ComCarDiv-3 .
All the gear I wrote about is Old Tech to you I suppose.
Never heard of the gear that you were familiar with
The R-390 was the newest RX in use when I left the service in 1962.
I did one carrier, the Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Plankowner of that
fine vessel.
Yes indeed.
I actually worked on an R-390 a few times in the mid-80's. It was a
dinosaur then and we only had one of them. I remember it having a
ridicously complicated tuning mechanism, lots of gears and shafts, and
very difficult to get tuned up well.
I think much of the comm gear of today is digitally tuned with some
mouse clicks on a screen.
Times, they are a-changing. ;-)
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