AN/ALR-3 Radar Warning Receiver info wanted

[John]

I've been plugging away trying to get a tech manual for this 1950/60's
US Navy equipment, used on P2V-7 Neptune & EC-121 aircraft, among
others. So far all I've got is a short description of the Neptune
installation - no schematics. The thing is operational, sort of (I
have 400 Hz power) but I need to more info to use it effectively and
to write about it.

Is there a source of USN TM's? There *just might* somebody in this
group
who can help.

John

 

[bob urz]

John wrote:

I've been plugging away trying to get a tech manual for this 1950/60's
US Navy equipment, used on P2V-7 Neptune & EC-121 aircraft, among
others. So far all I've got is a short description of the Neptune
installation - no schematics. The thing is operational, sort of (I
have 400 Hz power) but I need to more info to use it effectively and
to write about it.

I have this vision of you trying to mount it in your car as a radar

detector. All you need is a surplus AIM7 missile to take out the cop
car....

bob

Is there a source of USN TM's? There *just might* somebody in this
group
who can help.

John

 

[John]

On Dec 21, 5:07 pm, bob urz <so...@inetnebr.com> wrote:

John wrote:
I've been plugging away trying to get a tech manual for this 1950/60's
US Navy equipment, used on P2V-7 Neptune & EC-121 aircraft, among
others. So far all I've got is a short description of the Neptune
installation - no schematics. The thing is operational, sort of (I
have 400 Hz power) but I need to find more info to use it effectively and
to write about it.

I have this vision of you trying to mount it in your car as a radar
detector. All you need is a surplus AIM7 missile to take out the cop
car....

bob

Well Bob, mounting it in my car would be easy, for it's about the size
of a shoe box. As to the rest of your vision, it's a radar *warning*
receiver, so the same situation applies to my 17-year-old small car as
when rumbling along in a Neptune: discretion is by *far* the better
part of valor. The idea is to preserve the ALR-3 system as an
operating entity rather than a dead black box.

John

Is there a source of USN TM's? There *just might* somebody in this
group
who can help.

John

 

[Rich Webb]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:35:57 -0800 (PST), John <mack@melbpc.org.au>
wrote:

I've been plugging away trying to get a tech manual for this 1950/60's
US Navy equipment, used on P2V-7 Neptune & EC-121 aircraft, among
others. So far all I've got is a short description of the Neptune
installation - no schematics. The thing is operational, sort of (I
have 400 Hz power) but I need to more info to use it effectively and
to write about it.

Is there a source of USN TM's? There *just might* somebody in this
group
who can help.

There's the DoD "ASSIST" database with a portal for public documents
(including many MIL-STDs) at https://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/
but that seems to be a dry well.

Your best bet may be to determine what command was the last in-service
engineering agent (ISEA) for that gear. The ISEA is responsible for
life-cycle support and should have had all of the prints and manuals.

However, in addition to just identifying who that command *was*, you may
also need to track down who it *is* today, since many of the ISEAs
wandered among commands as a result of various BRACs over the years,
from NAVSEA or NAVAIR to NAVELEX to SPAWAR, with associated changes in
the command name and code.

I'd start with finding whoever has ISEA responsibility for the current
generation ALR receivers.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

 

[David Lesher]

John <mack@melbpc.org.au> writes:

I've been plugging away trying to get a tech manual for this 1950/60's
US Navy equipment, used on P2V-7 Neptune & EC-121 aircraft, among
others. So far all I've got is a short description of the Neptune
installation - no schematics. The thing is operational, sort of (I
have 400 Hz power) but I need to more info to use it effectively and
to write about it.

Is there a source of USN TM's? There *just might* somebody in this group
who can help.

You might ask the Historical err National Electronics Museum
<http://www.hem-usa.org/> about it. It's got all KINDS of radars; AND if
you get it going I suspect they can help test it... if they are allowed
to run any of them.

It's a short ride from BWI, and you could get to BWI in only 20-24 hours
crammed into a coach seat....


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