MIL-HDBK-162A
Volume 1
15 December 1965
Section 3
DATE: 1 July 1964
ITEM NAME: RADAR REPEATER EQUIPMENT
COGNIZANT SERVICE: USN
TYPE: VL, VL-1
FEDERAL STOCK NUMBER:
USA
USN
USAF
USMC
STATUS OR TYPE CLASSIF[CATION
Sub. Std
Mfg(s) Name or Code Number: General Electric Company
12-inch CRT within ranges of 20, 40, 70, and 140 miles,
but contain provisions to change the ranges to 20, 40,
100, and 200 miles, if desired.
Selection of a
presentation width may be made at the unit or at the
remote radar control system. These repeaters are often
used in conjunction with VK series repeater equipments
which repeat search information.
RELATION TO SIMILAR EQUIPMENT
None.
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION
Pulse Repetition Frequency: 60 to 3, 000 pps
Video Input: +1 to +2.5v
Trigger Input: +5 to +50v
Range Selection:
Normal - 20, 40, 70, and 140 mi
Alternate - 20, 40, 100, and 200 mi
Sweep Delay - 180 mi max
Sweep Range - 270 mi max undistorted
Range Accuracy: 1% of total scale
Range Markers: 5, 10, 20, and 50 mi
Sector Width: 10, 30, or 360 deg
Operating Voltages and Power Requirements:
115v 10%, 60 2 cps, 1-ph, 1, 510 va, 96% pf
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
Radar Repeater Equipment VL and VL-1 are
compact, self-contained units designed for permanent
Not available.
shipboard installation at a point remote from the radar
height-finding units. The equipments are used to repeat
visual information obtained from any standard Navy
height radar system. They display scope patterns on a
VL: 1
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