Hey the -39 is just a -78 with a smaller antenna. Those HPAs ate sh*t all the time and we had 4! I learned a ton working there as stuff broke constantly. Here at work we have an ex Army guy that worked a 52 in Panama and another 52 in Jersey. The heavy terminal modification was cool. They completed it a few months before I got out in '98. It was better than the old 52 after the upgrade in many respects. The HPAs being in the terminal being one of them.

The upgrade got rid of the 3 major maintenance issues of the 39/78. The HPAs were replaced by 4 air cooled units, the heat exhangers went away and the paramateric LNAs went bye-bye.

 

Yup, the -39 was basically a smaller-capacity -78. IIRC, the "G" in "GSC" (as opposed to "FSC") referred to the site being in trailers, as opposed to a fixed building. When I was there from '97-'99, it was the last one. Waiting for parts took forever, as the depot was basically rebuilding our broken parts and sending them back.

Lol, yeah, those heat exchangers were craziness. There's nothing like having coolant hoses next to the HVPS and TWT. I don't recall the recruiter's job description including plumbing, either =p. I miss doing sweeps on the LNAs in the antenna room. I did one during fairly high winds once. Those antennas can move pretty fast when they feel like it, lol.

 

I worked on the AN/FSC-78 and AN/FSC-79 in Guam some 18 years ago and a single AN/FSC-79 that use to be in Stockton CA some 21 years ago. That base is totally gone now. You guys go to school in Ft Gordon GA?

 

Nope, I was in the Triangle during 1996 at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. They moved the program to Gordon something like a year later, IIRC. Sure glad I missed the move, 'cause New Orleans was fun times.

 

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338th! Dark Nights! I left there February 1995. I did attend the very last 78 school at Ft. Gordon on a 2 month TDY. If I had to do that school over again I wouldn't.

Looks like we need to have a NW RX7/Satcom get together.

 

well i dont work but at college i saw this today
now this is a hard drive from the 60's and that in the corner is a floopy disk, and the floopy disk holds more data haha.
the big HD is about 1 MB or so, and has an external AC motor that is belt driven at about 200 RPM, and runs off of 220V AC lol
boy things sure have changed!

 

AN/TPQ-36 Radar in Iraq. Tracks exactly where the enemy is firing mortars and rockets from and where they are firing to.

 

AN/TPQ-37 Artillery Radar(FIREFINDER)

 

here is a radar for ya

 

Check your pm's

 

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