Good job, Art....
OE Division,when I was aboard, maintained ALL the Radar and Communications equipment aboard ship, as well as being responsible for the one piece of sonar gear, the fathometer. We were broken down into two groups, the Radar Techs, ETR's; and the Radio Techs, ETN's. The radar gang was responsible for all the radars, repeaters, radar distribution boards (Bendix boards) as well as IFF, AEW, and the TACAN.
I started out in the Bendix boards and then went on up to the SPS-37A radar, the primary air search radar which would give a skin paint at over 240 miles (on a good day). This was long before the days of radar transponders, and even solid state electronics. Everything we had was vacuum tube. Our ET shop was on the 02 level between the forward 3"/50 mounts. We had spaces scattered between Radio Central, deep inside the shop to the TACAN room,up on the 05 level. My radar room was up on the 03 level, just above Control 9, an FT space, and next to the SPS-30 room.
Back then ET"A" School was 38 weeks long, 28 weeks of basic electronics and 10 weeks of "Branch" (Radar or Comm). the length of "C" Schools depended on the particular piece of gear.
Doug Marsh, ETR2, 1965-1968
OE Division,when I was aboard, maintained ALL the Radar and Communications equipment aboard ship, as well as being responsible for the one piece of sonar gear, the fathometer. We were broken down into two groups, the Radar Techs, ETR's; and the Radio Techs, ETN's. The radar gang was responsible for all the radars, repeaters, radar distribution boards (Bendix boards) as well as IFF, AEW, and the TACAN.
I started out in the Bendix boards and then went on up to the SPS-37A radar, the primary air search radar which would give a skin paint at over 240 miles (on a good day). This was long before the days of radar transponders, and even solid state electronics. Everything we had was vacuum tube. Our ET shop was on the 02 level between the forward 3"/50 mounts. We had spaces scattered between Radio Central, deep inside the shop to the TACAN room,up on the 05 level. My radar room was up on the 03 level, just above Control 9, an FT space, and next to the SPS-30 room.
Back then ET"A" School was 38 weeks long, 28 weeks of basic electronics and 10 weeks of "Branch" (Radar or Comm). the length of "C" Schools depended on the particular piece of gear.
Doug Marsh, ETR2, 1965-1968
