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Brooke Class DEG/FFG antenna question

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  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Monday, May 9, 2011 2:13 PM

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I found this site using the search parameters you suggested. The lowermost antenna looks like what the kit was trying to depict.

http://www.l-3com.com/datron/products/sa.htm

 

 

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  • Member since
    April 2011
  • From: Moyock NC
Posted by Thorny 196 on Monday, May 9, 2011 12:46 PM

Yes that is a OE-82/WSC-3 sat com antenna, there are two on each ship (DD, FF FFG ect..) this one looks like a coffee can the older version was a square flat plat with four diepole antennas pertruding out from it. If you do a search WSC-3 satcom antenna it will show up I do not know the designation of the older antenna they seem to lable them the same, If I know how to post a pic I would. The pedistal lower drive is exactly the same, once you look for it on an older ships picture you will not miss it. they also are in sets of two ussually one forward one aft.. R/Mike

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, May 7, 2011 6:56 PM

The Brooke class has only one SPG-51. I identified all the radars and antennas that were listed in my copy of Ships and Aircaraft of the US Fleet 1978. Except this one.

The later SATCOM is circled in red

and this is the kit part in the same location. It is not part of the fire control system, from everything I could look up. And all the sites/photos I have found have not showed this item or area clearly

 

 

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  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Mansfield, TX
Posted by EdGrune on Saturday, May 7, 2011 5:43 PM

Its not a SATCOM dish

Its a SPG-51 missile guidance radar dish

Wiki is your friend on this

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Brooke Class DEG/FFG antenna question
Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, May 7, 2011 2:13 PM

Hello, I am currently building the old Monogram USS Ramsey. It has a dish type antenna on the rear of teh superstructure that I am trying to pin down for reference.

 You can see it here on my kit as the smaller dish between the missile launcher and the missile fire ontrol radar. The kit part has the detail of a spinning  top (disc with a small point)

On this photo of the same area of the real ship in her 1980s fitting, it appears to be a SATCOM antenna. (poinitng skywards aft of the Missile FCR) 

But I am building the kit as molded in her late 60s fitting, so even if it is some kind of microwave/SATCOM antenna, the type  changed. Can anyone here identify the type of antenna and steer me towards a good reference of the original antenna type? I have looked at plenty of spots (USS Ramsey's website, Navsource, etc) but am not coming up with anything so far.

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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