You are on a mission.....

Ed Rasimus wrote in message news:
With SA-2 and APR-36/37 (or APR-25/26 or ALR-46) which is what I
carried, the Fan-Song search comes in low and high PRF (pulse
recurrence frequency).

PRF is "pulse repetition frequency".

I hate myself when I make corrections like this, but after all, you
once corrected my "YGTBSM" as one letter too long.

Check six,

Jim Thomas

(ArtKramr) wrote in message ...
You are on a mission. What is the most frightening thing you can hear over the
intercom? Any opinions?

Not the most frightening thing, but one all of us pilots heard during
unusual attitude training when, with our eyes closed (sure!) the IP
put the aircraft through a few rolls and other things, then said "You
have it!"

Jim Thomas

A Fan Song has a warbly growl. When two sites have you it sounds a lot
worse.


At Berbera Somalia (supposedly 'friendly') in 1983, we got lit up and tracked
by an SA-2 site, among other things. In response, the Connie (? I think), sent
a pair of TARPS F-14s near the sites within a day or so - big surprise, they
were fired upon.

Our Sensor 3 was pretty wound up after this event happened. Same crew was
involved in the Tashkent incident a month before, when that Soviet Kara-class
cruiser fired an SA-7 vertically, which then began to track the passing P-3...
According to the Soviets at the next INCSEA conference, the crew of the P-3 was
notified by a broadcast on Channel 16 by the Soviets that they were announcing
a closure of the airspace for a planned missile test. From the right rear
observer window, it looked like it came out of the SA-N-4 mount on Tashkent's
port side - the pilot in the right seat hollered a warning and rolled over,
diving away from the rising column of smoke, angling in our general direction.


Life with that VP-48 crew was always interesting.

v/r
Gordon
====(A+C====
USN SAR

Its always better to lose -an- engine, not -the- engine.

"Jim Thomas" wrote
Ed Rasimus wrote
With SA-2 and APR-36/37 (or APR-25/26 or ALR-46) which is what I
carried, the Fan-Song search comes in low and high PRF (pulse
recurrence frequency).

PRF is "pulse repetition frequency".

Actually, both are used, with recurrence more of an old-style (50's).

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:16:04 -0500, "D. Strang"
wrote:

"Jim Thomas" wrote
Ed Rasimus wrote
With SA-2 and APR-36/37 (or APR-25/26 or ALR-46) which is what I
carried, the Fan-Song search comes in low and high PRF (pulse
recurrence frequency).

PRF is "pulse repetition frequency".

Actually, both are used, with recurrence more of an old-style (50's).

Gimme a break here....'60s and '70s. I ain't old enough to have been
dealing with radar signatures from the '50s. But, you are correct in
principle. The terminology we used when I was in that business was
recurrence.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message
...
Gimme a break here....'60s and '70s. I ain't old enough to have been
dealing with radar signatures from the '50s. But, you are correct in
principle. The terminology we used when I was in that business was
recurrence.


Ed Rasimus

Break out that silk scarf, Ed!

Tex (who is just leaving to go to the airshow)

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:54:26 -0600, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:16:04 -0500, "D. Strang"
wrote:

"Jim Thomas" wrote
Ed Rasimus wrote
With SA-2 and APR-36/37 (or APR-25/26 or ALR-46) which is what I
carried, the Fan-Song search comes in low and high PRF (pulse
recurrence frequency).

PRF is "pulse repetition frequency".

Actually, both are used, with recurrence more of an old-style (50's).

Gimme a break here....'60s and '70s. I ain't old enough to have been
dealing with radar signatures from the '50s. But, you are correct in
principle. The terminology we used when I was in that business was
recurrence.

But the SA-2 was from the '50s!

"Buzzer" wrote
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 09:54:26 -0600, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:16:04 -0500, "D. Strang"
wrote:

"Jim Thomas" wrote
Ed Rasimus wrote
With SA-2 and APR-36/37 (or APR-25/26 or ALR-46) which is what I
carried, the Fan-Song search comes in low and high PRF (pulse
recurrence frequency).

PRF is "pulse repetition frequency".

Actually, both are used, with recurrence more of an old-style (50's).

Gimme a break here....'60s and '70s. I ain't old enough to have been
dealing with radar signatures from the '50s. But, you are correct in
principle. The terminology we used when I was in that business was
recurrence.

But the SA-2 was from the '50s!

Well, I mean radars designed in the 50's. A lot of theory books from that era
(equipment used in the 60's) used recurrence.

Minor nit...