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Author Topic: What is this used for, please? "CW-24/UPM-1"  (Read 3427 times)
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« on: October 08, 2012, 10:10:08 PM »

A voice in my head made me bring it home.

It is quite large, for scale the CRT is 3" and the small knobs are about 1"..

The front cover was with it, as well as the power cord and some cables.

Seems complete. The cover says: "CW-24/UPM-1".

Hopefully someone remembers using this monstrous instrument.


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« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2012, 10:22:48 PM »

UPM is the designator for a radar test set.
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« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2012, 10:36:47 PM »

Google lists a reference to UPM-1 as "Test Set, Radar," which is in agreement with KB3OUK's post as well as the amber P7 filter on the CRT.

http://www.wbparts.com/rfq/6625-00-196-5301.html

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« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2012, 11:11:23 PM »

oops, found the thing on a military museum.. but yall's answers are not so dry. Thanks!

This resource was uncovered:
http://cdm15040.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4013coll8/searchterm/Graphic%20survey%20of%20radio%20and%20radar%20equipment/order/nosort

First, I was led to scribd.com, but they want a facebook login, which I'm not going to do.. so the title was searched for and led to the above site chock full of WWII stuff!

Radar Maintenance Equipment AN/UPM-1A is aground portable beacon and monitor test set used to test andmonitor radar beacons and other equipment operating in thefrequency range of 155-235 mc, and 460-570 mc.

This test equipment may be used to measure or check transmitter frequency, power output pulse width and pulse shape; measure and check receiver sensitivity and bandwidth; measure or check pulse shape at receiver out-put; give an indication of the approximate repetition rate of transponders; provide for beacon monitoring; and measure or check delay time in transponder or beacons.A 3- inch oscilloscope is used as an indicator and voltage measuring instrument. The usual focus, intensity and centering control are provided by a linear sweep of40, 200, or 2000 micro-seconds duration. Horizontal timing calibration is provided. Oscillators of pulse radio frequency signals are provided in each frequency band. They may be synchronized from an external source or from an internal synchronizing generator. Wavemeters with separate diode detectors measure the frequency of either the internal pulse signal generators or external pulse radio frequency signals over the range of 155 to 235 mc. and 460 to 570 mc.


Hey it might be of some use. Nice to look at anyway. It has ten 6SN7's  inside.. The issue with this stuff is it usually won't quite reach the ham bands without a lot of work, and then, is this worth it??  maybe not. But I am slowly getting a collection of military UHF and VHF stuff. Some of it is working, such as the radar altimeter APN-1 and its test set recently found the TS-10/APN. The altimeter works on 460MHz or so, sure to make trouble. None of this old WWII stuff is tuned accurately by todays standards.
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