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I wish I could remember if it was a TDY or a TDY-1, but that escapes me. I will say that these sets now reside back in their crates- back in the "Indiana Jones" warehouse- and if it were within my powers I would say-
"You'll drive out there ?.... they're all yours !"
Shoot, and I would be there inside 12 hours to boot. But alas, it will not be.
I worked at a Navy facility 35'ish years ago that had all of these things we are discussing, I mean every version of every early (about pre-1950) RCM / ESM / ELINT receiver and jammer that I am now aware of, setting on a shelf in storage. Complete systems, both in boxes and just setting out. Including a few of the very limited production systems and hand built one-of-a-kind prototypes from NRL that never went into serial production, systems that literally have no survivors left today. Four, 40 foot long, shipping containers lined with shelves and full of gear.
But, this was before I developed my interest in these early systems. Sure, I collected radios at the time, had since the 1960's, but not this early military gear.
But I was exposed to it all. That may have planted the seed.
Those 4 containers did eventually go to DRMO and were sold for salvage, but I did not find out about it until much later so by the time I started following up to try and buy them they had all been sold for scrap metal. I saw the same basic thing happen to the only complete AN/WLR-1 that I know of that made it into civilian hands.
And that is the problem, that is why I have started my collection. Some of these systems, even some made in large numbers, have no known survivors. Lots of museums have onesies and twosies of the pieces / parts, but, depending on which suites we are talking about, very few (pretty much none) really have complete, representative, example of how the gear would have looked in action.
This is a little known but very important technological step and segment of history, that is completely disappearing as time goes on. Just one of many disappearing histories, I know, but one I really have an interest in and so maybe can do something, a little something, about. One of the problems is that while the basics of this development are known, many of the details were highly classified at the time. And as the generation of people involved die out it is getting harder and harder to gather information on some of the lesser well known aspects.
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