USS Pueblo equipment, pls identify
 

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

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.

--
"They could fill the sky with lusers if it didn't have
to stay filled for very long." -- Alan J Rosenthal

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



pic9 is of two an/urc-32 collins tranceivers.

Hi. What about the strange SP-600 type radio with no meter. Its only
partially visible at the bottom of the pic. Do yo know what it is? Heres the
pic:

http://users.erols.com/eengineer/Pic00003.jpg


Brian

Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianehill/

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Hi. What about the strange SP-600 type radio with no meter. Its only
partially visible at the bottom of the pic. Do yo know what it is? Heres the
pic:

Wonder if it is that SP 600 variant that was used to record big chunks of HF
spectrum on videotapes for later analysis? Fair Radio used to sell them.

"George R. Gonzalez" ) writes:
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 am puzzled. I thought that the value of mobile collection was to be
able to intercept VHF/UHF comms that couldn't be picked up by land-based
intercept stations. Other than a few possible CEI VHF/UHF receivers in the
left hand rack in (I think) PIC14, all the receivers shown are HF. What
gives?

Also, the R1051, with its one-digit-per-knob frequency control, is a poor
receiver for search. The R1051 is much better suited to fixed-frequency
intercept of mainline and other upper echelon comms links. These links
are usually easily intercepted by land-based operations, so why bother
with them on a mobile collection platform like the Pueblo?

.... Martin VE3OAT

Martin Potter wrote:

I am puzzled. I thought that the value of mobile collection was to be
able to intercept VHF/UHF comms that couldn't be picked up by land-based
intercept stations. Other than a few possible CEI VHF/UHF receivers in the
left hand rack in (I think) PIC14, all the receivers shown are HF. What
gives?

Also, the R1051, with its one-digit-per-knob frequency control, is a poor
receiver for search. The R1051 is much better suited to fixed-frequency
intercept of mainline and other upper echelon comms links. These links
are usually easily intercepted by land-based operations, so why bother
with them on a mobile collection platform like the Pueblo?

Maybe the R-1051s were for stuff like fleet broadcasts, order wires,
and the like, so the Pueblo could talk with next higher and with the
ships that were getting part of Pueblo's "take" via HF or VHF from
the Pueblo.

Maybe they were there for getting PDRK trunk comms where the PDRK
transmitter used directional antennas and the beam didn't go over
anyplace that Daddy Dirnsa could put a land station?

Or maybe they were getting the back lobes of a transmission?

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin

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.

--
Mike Andrews

Tired old sysadmin

"George R. Gonzalez" wrote in
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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