MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 1
DATE: 15 April 1964
ITEM NAME: RADIO INTERROGATOR SET
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USAF
TYPE: AN/GPX-17
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER: 5895-342-9466B
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE (CLASSIFICATION
Alt Std
Mfg(s) Name or ())de Number: Hazeltine Electronics Corporation
This equipment permits the video pulses to be displayed
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
on the plan position indicators (PPI) of the associated
Radar Identification Set AN/GPX-17 provides Mark X
radar set. The interrogator output level and receiver
IFF for Radio Set AN/TPS-1D.
The AN/GPX-17
sensitivity are adequate for interrogating and receiving
transmits coded radio-frequency pulses to trigger an
airborne transponder identification set and converts the
received transponder reply to video pulses
AN/GPX-17: 1