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Originally Posted by Jeffkop
Hi Barry ... probably 77 sqn, would have been mirage's in those days, now Hornets ... APX72, Same IFF the C130 used and probably most military aircraft in that time. Its one of the bits of kit that I didnt get to work on, that and the DMEA but I repaired those as a civvy (before DMEA was phased out ) after I got out. Do you remember the size of the box that held the delay line in the APX72 test set ... could store 6 14" RCOS's in it I reckon. C130's, Caribou, Boeing 707, Iroqios were my babies.
Good yakking to you.
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Hi Jeff
The radio repair squadron was 48_ something I thought it was 486 but they were at Richmond. I only went to Ricmond once to show them how to make a voice scrambler how to work. Ended up getting a couple of the guys there a trip to cairns and a ride on one of my Fremantles for a demo. (only time they ever worked properly!)
I knew what IFF was but it was normally done by the radar section. I did coms although I did get most of the
too difficult radar problems to resolve. The only APX test sets I ever had was the in-line field tester and a "yellow" box test set (UPX-6? clone) that I can't remember the name of, borrowed from MODN. I could never get the inline unit to do anything but I had limited facilities in my "workshop" at Scott Lithgow dockyard.
I had some fun with a couple of Mirages back in 1982?. The Cairns hardour board decided to give us the old dredge "Trinty Bay" for target practice. It was taken out to deep water and the, then, un-commissioned Warnambool was the control "ship". The captain of HMAS Cairns was the master. I was stuck with manning the radios so I had to control the bombing runs. They hit the target but could not sink it with their "practice" bombs so we laid a demolition charge. Saw myself many times on the Local TV news.
I have many more "War-ees" as we used to call our recollections from my experiences with the dept of defence. Particularly the "near misses" that no one ever lets on about!
Barry