DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPS' RADAR APPARATUS AT RFT-FUNKWERK KOEPENICK VEB

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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Development of Ships' Radar Apparatus at RFT.
Funkwerk Koepeniok VFB
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE
ACQUIRED
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
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become a key plant
avoid attracting attention to the works. It was the intentioe t n
to expand the production program of 'RFT Koepenick by p g special government
orders with the plant. Boer then stated that that very morning talks had taken
place between government officials and the management of RFT Koepeniok and that,
as a result, the plant was to receive an urgent order for the construction of a
radar apparatus. Boer then directed conferees to observe stric+, silence on the
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this order has now been placed with RFT Koepeniok. Since
sometime in waron, he Ships' Radio Department has been assigned the development
of a radar set. The set is understood, within the department, to be for use on
ships. The apparatus is being InvaloT)ed under the a of "Kollisionsschuts-
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1. On 6 March 1952 a meeting of SM7 members of RFT Funkwerk Koepenick VEB (Berlin-
Koepeniok, Wendenschless?Str. 154/158) was held at the works.
2. At the meeting, Director Paul Boer announced that RFT Koepenick was destined to
t that na official statement would be made, in order to
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DATE DISTR. 27 October 1952
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
April 1952
projects 1,600,000 IN East
$ 300,000 DM East
30 lcn.
3.2 cme
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A rotating antenna, is to be placed on the mast of the ship. It is to have
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specifications are known to the Ships' Radio Department of RFT
Work to be finished by
Money allocated to development
Money allocated for 1952
Mange
Wave length
Resolution
The following
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automatic horizontal compensations Transmitter and receiver will be in the radio
roomz two cathode ray tubes will be in the wheel house. At a distance of 30` km.
a reflecting area of 0.5 m2 mast; still reflect the cathode rays,
5e This project has been divided into eighteen separate assignments, each bearing
a reference ntunhero They are as follows 8
(1).
Antennenteil (Antrieb)
antenna part (antenna drive mechanism?
Anterinenteil (Richtcharaktoeristik) (antenna part (antenna directional
cflaracteris?tici
.fangs-Simultansohaltung sending and reoeiv,ng (duplex aasexnbly)7
er?gie1ei t g
Mi a chkopf
Vor?verst~aerker
Verstaerker
0azillator -Nachlaufeinrrichtung
Stromversorgung
Impala zentrale
Sichtger?aet
Bedienungsgeraet
To chters ichtgeraet
Senderta statuf e
Hochspannarngsnetzgeraet
Gleichlaufeinr?ichtung
alit-Eino r?dnuang se, inrichtung
Messleitung, Stiohleitungx,
2 Stueok Tetzgeraate
(dummy or test lead)
(mixer converter)
(preamplifier)
(intermediate frequency amplifier)
(local oscillator)
(current supply)
LImpulse central (aynechronizerff
(scope or viewing device)
(tuning device)
(remote scope or viewing device)
(transmitter modulator)
(high voltage net equipment)
(synchronizing device)
(accessories)
(test lines? pulse discharges 2 net
apparatus)
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