"Ed Price" ) writes:
"George R. Gonzalez" wrote in
message news:xVRXb.40407$yE5.149775@attbi_s54...

More info on Pic 19 (http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_17.jpg):
the three identical items stacked together on the left
side appear to be KG-14 cryptodevices, from the picture of a KG-14 at
http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg14.html.

The arrangement of the thumbscrews that hold the box in its case
is pretty distinctive, and the fuseholders just below that box
sticking out of the front panel do, I think, pretty much cinch the
identification.

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin



The crypto gear still has the key modules in place? Weird.

Maybe the crew had time to dump them; if so, the Koreans bought spares on
eBay.

Ed

But when was the picture taken?

There was an article in QST in the early seventies by a crew member of
the Pueblo, who happened to be a ham. He mentioned taking a fire axe
the the R-390s. Someone with a better organized collection could look
up the article (it must have in the first few months of 1971 or earlier,
since I did not read the article when it first came out, and I
started reading QST in April of 1971). So I thought the equipment
was indeed damaged, though maybe they did not have enough time to
do enough damage.

Michael VE2BVW

The article appeared in the February 1971 issue of QST and was written by
Ralph McClintock, then K1SCQ - now W1ZK.

The reference to actually destroying gear:

"I didn't realize it then, but in about one hour I could be taking a sledge
hammer and fire axe to those R-390As along with all the other juicy
receiving equipment on board Pueblo (about five million dollars worth)."

I had clipped and saved his article...glad I did now.

73 -- Dino KLØS/4

It was the February, 1971 issue.

Jim

Michael Black wrote:

"Ed Price" ) writes:

"George R. Gonzalez" wrote in
message news:xVRXb.40407$yE5.149775@attbi_s54...

More info on Pic 19 (http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_17.jpg):
the three identical items stacked together on the left
side appear to be KG-14 cryptodevices, from the picture of a KG-14 at
http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg14.html.

The arrangement of the thumbscrews that hold the box in its case
is pretty distinctive, and the fuseholders just below that box
sticking out of the front panel do, I think, pretty much cinch the
identification.

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin



The crypto gear still has the key modules in place? Weird.

Maybe the crew had time to dump them; if so, the Koreans bought spares on
eBay.

Ed


But when was the picture taken?

There was an article in QST in the early seventies by a crew member of
the Pueblo, who happened to be a ham. He mentioned taking a fire axe
the the R-390s. Someone with a better organized collection could look
up the article (it must have in the first few months of 1971 or earlier,
since I did not read the article when it first came out, and I
started reading QST in April of 1971). So I thought the equipment
was indeed damaged, though maybe they did not have enough time to
do enough damage.

Michael VE2BVW

Pic #9 is a pair of AN/URC-32 SSB Transceivers 500 Watts 2-32 Mhz


What we see is the top half, with the PA and Antenna Tuning unit.


On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:42:59 GMT, "George R. Gonzalez"
wrote:

There's a whole load of snapshots of boatanchor equipment that was carried
(and still is) on the USS Pueblo.

URL:

http://users.erols.com/eengineer/pueblomain.html

I can identify some R390A's, a Model 28 TTY, a few HP signal generators, but
that's about it.


Can anybody identify some of the other stuff in the racks?



Thanks,

George

In article , says...
Mike Andrews wrote:
George R. Gonzalez wrote:
There's a whole load of snapshots of boatanchor equipment that was carried
(and still is) on the USS Pueblo.

URL:

http://users.erols.com/eengineer/pueblomain.html

I can identify some R390A's, a Model 28 TTY, a few HP signal generators, but
that's about it.

Can anybody identify some of the other stuff in the racks?

Pic 6: the top left and bottom right gear is a pair of R-1051
receivers, exact model uncertain.

Pic 7: bottom gear is another pair of R-1051 receivers.

Pic 15: 6 of the eight items in the middle two rows are R-1051s.

Pic 19: three of the items in the left-hand rack appear to be some
flavor of crypto gear.

More info on Pic 19 (http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_17.jpg):
the three identical items stacked together on the left
side appear to be KG-14 cryptodevices, from the picture of a KG-14 at
http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/crypto/kg14.html.

The arrangement of the thumbscrews that hold the box in its case
is pretty distinctive, and the fuseholders just below that box
sticking out of the front panel do, I think, pretty much cinch the
identification.



at the bottom.
.... It's a 36 (or 37?)(it's been a while)
linked with the 14s for fleet broadcasts...
.... and other things. The DeMux gear is in one
of the photos.

The display is "staged". Many of these things
don't belong together.


There's some basic CT(R) stuff about in the pics.

the 1051s would link ship/ship ship/shore
PIC5
http://users.erols.com/eengineer/096f_2.jpg

above the beast-390 is the best receiver
that I ever worked with... all space,
all time. Something like an FRR 57(59..
whatever). I tuned and used...
Properly tuned with all the filters intact
it was the absolute best receiver for
signal discrimination.


PIC8

Is one of the saddest things of all time.
The Navy screwed Bucher. Big time.
Bucher was the best of the best.
A great sailor and a fine commander.
He died about a month ago.
Fair seas and following winds.

http://www.usspueblo.us

....and not a bad artiist. RIP.

n