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- OBJECT TYPE
- 1680 MC
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0153.001
- MANUFACTURER
- RAYTHEON CANADA LTD.
- MODEL
- TS62
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- TS62 3
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING, INTERIOR CONTROL PANEL, PARTS/ GLASS LIGHT & METER COVER/ SYNTHETIC PARTS/ PAPER GRAPH
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 30.5 cm
- Width
- 20.8 cm
- Height
- 30.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Radio
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- RAYTHEON
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
-
CANADIAN MADE EQUIPMENT USED BY THE CANADIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE TO SERVICE EQUIPMENT USED IN ITS RADIOSONDE FORECASTING & RESEARCH PROGRAMME. - Function
-
AN INSTRUMENT USED TO VERIFY THE RECEIVERS AND THE TRACKING ABILITY OF THE ANTENNA OF A RADIOSONDE RECEIVING STATION, PART OF A SYSTEM TO TRACK BALLOON-BORNE RADIOSONDE TRANSMITTERS AUTOMATICALLY. - Technical
-
THIS TEST SET WAS USED TO CHECK THE RECEIVERS IN THE GMD (GROUND METEOROLOGICAL DEVICE) AND WITH A TOWER MOUNTED ANTENNA TO CHECK THE TRACKING CAPABILITY OF THE GMD ANTENNA AND THE MDS (MINIMUM DISCERNIBLE SIGNAL) OF THE RECEIVER (REF. 1). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INTERIOR PLATE READING '1680 MC. TEST SET/ MADE FOR/ DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT/ METEOROLOGICAL BRANCH/ CANADA/ SERIAL NUMBER TS62 3/ RAYTHEON CANADA LIMITED' (NOTE: 'TS62' IS PART OF PLATE LETTERING, '3' IS INCISED)/ WHITE LETTERING FOR CONTROLS
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- GREY ENAMEL PAINTED CASING/ BLUE ENAMEL PAINTED CONTROL PANEL/ BLACK ENAMEL PAINTED CONTROLS, METER CASING/ BLACK CORD/ METALLIC & PAPER PARTS/ WHITE PAPER UNDER CLEAR SYNTHETIC COVER
- Decoration
- N/A
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RAYTHEON CANADA LTD., Test set, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 1994.0153, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1994.0153.001/
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