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Originally Posted by Rip
Without being able to create audio it is all much less fun anyway. Nothing like the sound of an AWG-9 or some of the more advanced scan systems. I seem to recall the SPS-48 having a very distinctive sound as well.
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The Mk 23 TAS was also distinctive... i remember hearing it in the audio of a CNN broadcast once after i transferred to CIVLANT. One of their reporters was on the flight deck of a carrier yapping about something or other, and some of the video/broadcast equipment must have somehow demodulated the PRF, and the pulse train bled into the audio feed. I recognized it instantly... some of those signals used to follow me into my rack and haunt my dreams
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Originally Posted by Rip
In the end without that and a few RADCHEE, Janes, and some intel books all strewn about around you could not simulate the experience  . I've always thought it was the best enlisted position on the boat. Wake me if we come to PD, I'll be in my rack! |
It did indeed have its benefits! We were so short on qualified ESM operators that I could spend all my time below PD qualifying... didn't take me long! And I NEVER cranked.
TG