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The '''Repeater''' | [[File:DirectorFiringHandbook1918DirectorFiringHandbook1918_Plate33.jpg|thumb|360px|'''The Repeater'''<ref>Admiralty. ''Dreyer Table Handbook, 1918'', Plate 33.</ref><br>Xerox copy thanks to Bill Schleihauf. ]] | ||
'''The Repeater''' was a British fire control data receiver placed in [[Control Position|control positions]] aloft and in the [[Gun Control Tower]]<ref>''Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918'', p. 70.</ref> which displayed the enemy's [[Inclination|inclination]], speed and [[Range Rate|range rate]] in use on the [[Dreyer Fire Control Table]].<ref>''Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918'', p. 8.</ref> | |||
These were likely used only in ships carrying Mark IV and Mark IV* Dreyer tables, as these were the only ones featuring [[Electrical Dumaresq]]s with commutators in their unique centreworks to transmit enemy speed and inclination.<ref>''Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918'', p. 76. Plate 25.</ref> The Dreyer Handbook alludes to a "rate transmitter on the Dreyer table"<ref>''Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918'', p 76.</ref> providing the range rate signals, but none of its descriptions of the various tables allude to such a transmitter. They could have been bulkhead-mounted transmitters or one within electrical dumaresqs and their integral range clocks.{{INF}} | |||
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Revision as of 20:12, 16 March 2012
The Repeater was a British fire control data receiver placed in control positions aloft and in the Gun Control Tower[2] which displayed the enemy's inclination, speed and range rate in use on the Dreyer Fire Control Table.[3]
These were likely used only in ships carrying Mark IV and Mark IV* Dreyer tables, as these were the only ones featuring Electrical Dumaresqs with commutators in their unique centreworks to transmit enemy speed and inclination.[4] The Dreyer Handbook alludes to a "rate transmitter on the Dreyer table"[5] providing the range rate signals, but none of its descriptions of the various tables allude to such a transmitter. They could have been bulkhead-mounted transmitters or one within electrical dumaresqs and their integral range clocks.[Inference]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Admiralty. Dreyer Table Handbook, 1918, Plate 33.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p. 70.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p. 8.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p. 76. Plate 25.
- ↑ Handbook of Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables, 1918, p 76.
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