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Gregg Richwine
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Posted: Thu Nov 20th, 2008 05:07 am

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TheColonel wrote: The same was true when I worked there in 1981. The old WW2 radar should got a workout when more then three drops of rain fell. Maybe two drops at times. If you missed a sponsored radar report you really heard about it from the top brass.

The RCA AVQ-10 that Moberly and many of the Shepherd stations had was...uh...interesting to operate. We plotted data from a 6" diameter screen onto a 48" square map, covered in edge-lit glass, with yellow grease pencils. Looked pretty cool, actually. I'm sure Art has fond memories of that!

The AVQ-10 line actually dated from the mid -50's... http://www.smecc.org/rca_avq-10.htm

I believe they were made until 1981...the "accessory unit" electronics progressed from tubes to transistors over that time.

When TWA scrapped AVQ-10's back in the 80's, Shepherd got some of the test bench stuff and a pile of spares. The radar set in Bethany was retired a couple of years ago, but was still operational except for elevation control. Moberly replaced theirs in 1984 when Shepherd bought a package from Kavouras typically sold to TV stations...had their graphics front end married to a Collins doppler aircraft radar. We had one in Des Moines when I moved up here. As I recall, the computer part of it ran on the CP/M operating system (remember that, old timers?)

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