As we end the financial year we still have a little money left in our budget. I am open to a few suggestions as to what we need most. My current thinking is...
We have just received a near new condition 'cockpit lamp' from the UK. This is the little swivelling bakelite lamp that hangs off the front panels over the...
(Previous email with 1.2 MB of pics of PPI failed to be delivered.) Brian Tideman [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Brian Tideman
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Oct 3, 2005 2:06 am
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Hi everyone, One of the better PPIs is now at my home. A number of us have generally agreed that our first priority for a 277 display (in time for the 60th...
Brian Tideman
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Oct 3, 2005 2:44 am
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Hi all, My stereo amp which was only designed to drive 8 ohm loads had trouble mustering up enough 500 Hz power. Consequently I was only able to get a max of...
Brian Tideman
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Oct 3, 2005 8:28 am
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Brian's photos of the inside of the PPI and the first PPI scan waveform in 20 years are now in the Equipment/Restoration photo album. And Ive added a photo of...
At the request of Graham Rogers (served at Forrest in early 1968) Ive found and added a photo of the Forrest radar circa 1969 to the 'Stations' photo album. In...
Hi everyone, By 10.30pm Saturday night, I finally managed to get range rings on the PPI display and the focussing control to operate by providing 11.3 VAC at...
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Oct 22, 2005 1:35 pm
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Hi again, The slips rings have now been burnished and stable range rings are now being produced. I now find that the two circuit diagrams show the "old"...
Brian Tideman
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Oct 23, 2005 2:19 pm
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Due to the astonishing work of Brian Tideman you can see a picture of a 277 PPI working with range rings in the Photos/Equipment/Restoration album - well done...
We are looking for the straight sided bakelite knobs with THP on the underside. There is a photo in the Equipment/Restoration album. Also we're after the 4 pin...
Hi Harvey. OK, you're after a 4 pin plug. Vid tells me he's sent you a head and breast set. Must've not had a plug. The week before last I was at our WF44...
G'Day Workers, Re the device at the bottom of the 277 picture - its a dimmer/dip switch used to turn off the binnacle style lights around the outer edge of the...
Denis great!! I was wondering if it was like the 'ol WF2 'foot switch' that froze readouts for writting down - wrong again. No we dont have one, I think...
I've placed that photo of the switch in the "photo" section under "equipment". Ain't no greater hoarder than me!. Regards Denis Hakanson [Non-text portions of...
Hi Harvey: I'm trying to get a handle on where you are in your project. Do you actually have all the parts and pieces you require and have the unit ...
That Email re the above reminded me that I had something like that in my shed. It says "wavemeter" on the side and is the same colour as the 277. Dunno exactly...
The unit has a BNC connector on it and these arent on the 277 radar. As the BNC connector was invented in the late 1950s it is unlikely this was original 277...
To me it looks like some sort of an echo box (a tuned cavity with a simple diode detector feeding a visual indicator, which in this case appears to be a...
Hi Harvey: The original slide says 'CGDN @ Xmas' CGDN was the call sign of the CCGS Quadra. I made a Christmas trip in 1968 or 69. Seven long weeks of ...
Frank, you mentioned this: The original slide says 'CGDN @ Xmas' CGDN was the call sign of the CCGS Quadra. I made a Christmas trip in 1968 or 69. Seven...
Hi All: This is a cut and paste from an email I recently received from a lad who ran the 277 on the weatherships back in the 60s and early 70s. Harvey is...
The photos of operating the 277Q on board the Canadian Coast Guard Ship "Stonetown" are in the Photo Albums > Non-Bureau radars area. They are of excellent...
Harvey for taking a scheduled reading start about 15 - 20 seconds before the time. A. Sweep left and then right in azimuth across the target, stop the aerial...
Hi 277 group: I sent this via my gr8ve7 email address to the group but it didn't post. I've done a cut and paste here get it into the group, so if a duplicate...
Filed under Photos/Project is a sketch of the PPI display stand we are constructing. Details are: The polycarbonate cover designed to fit over a restored PPI...
Just a reminder to raise your glasses. On the 6th March 1956 the Townsville 277 radar performed the first cyclone watch in Australia. The story as told by Fred...
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