PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-699
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 699
FEBRUARY 2011
40
PS 699
FEB 11
41
PS 699
FEB 11
Dear Editor,
As a member of a deployed electronic warfare section, I see many practices
in the field that hurt system health and performance. Here are four quick tips
that will help equipment health and performance.
ONE:
Keep space around systems to allow for good air flow. Heat is an
equipment killer and where electronic warfare equipment is often deployed,
there’s enough heat already. Don’t add to it!
TWO:
Keep metal stuff that’s not authorized off the tops of vehicles.
Metal interferes with signal strength and quality. Metal, like wire and awnings,
should be carried on trailers or stowed in trucks.
THREE:
Don’t pressure wash CREW systems! Parts of electronic warfare
systems are subject to water intrusion when the water is shot at them under
high pressure. Don’t do it!
FOUR:
Keep antennas free of tape and straps that degrade system
performance.
There’s nothing difficult about any of these four short tips and the payoff
is big.
MAJ Gary Lyke
Electronic Warfare
Officer
OCONUS
Editor’s note:
Soldiers, follow these simple tips and
use your brainpower to come up with a few more.
CREW equipment needs to be functioning at peak
performance. Eliminate anything that prevents that
from happening.
I
f you’re a commo outFt, pull up your property book, modiFed table of organization
and equipment (MTOE), and common table of allowances (CTA) and make some
changes about two reeling machines.
Reeling machine, RL-31, LIN R59023, NSN 3895-00-252-6896, and reeling
machine, RL-39, LIN R59160, NSN 3895-00-498-8343, are no longer non-expendable
items. They’re now expendable! As expendable items, move them from your MTOE
and onto your CTA. Both of these reels will now reside on CTA 50-970,
Expendable/
Durable Items (Except: Medical, Class V, Repair Parts, and Heraldic Items).
These reels will lose their LIN to NIIN association, but will remain valid
components to their end item so retain them as needed to support those systems.
You’ll Fnd this information in ALARACT message 255/2010. To get a copy of
this message or to get questions answered about this change, email:
alexander.brownsr@us.army.mil
or
danny.e.rogers@us.army.mil
A
Short
Four
That
Will
Pay
Off
Big!
Electronic Warfare…
Some Reel Changes
A
Short
Four
That
Will
Pay
Off
Big!
These
are now
expendable
items
something’s
different about
these reels, have
they changed?
CREW equipment needs
to be functioning at
peak performance.
here’s how to
maintain
that performance!
yeah,
they have,
but the
differences
can’t
be
seen.
RL-31, RL-39…
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