Pinetree Line Miscellaneous

Radar Equipment


There have been many different types of search and height-finder radar equipment which was used during the life of the Pinetree Line. We are able to offer you with a little detail on some of the equipment which has been used over the years. We hope that there will be something here that manages to bring back a few memories.

Who Had What?

Search Radar

Height Finder Radar

AMES-11

FPS-6

CPS-5

FPS-26

CPS-6

FPS-90

FPS-3

FPS-507

FPS-7

ISG-98

FPS-14

MPS-4

FPS-20

MPS-14

FPS-27

TPS-501

FPS-87

TPS-502

FPS-93

 

FPS-107

 

FPS-117

 

FPS-502

 

FPS-508

 

MPS-7

 

TPS-1

 



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  1. Range Height Indicator (left) and Search radar scope (right) with a "mock up of an Operations site" at the Communications and Electronic Museum at Kingston, Ontario - August 2000.
    Courtesy of Bob Agar.

  2. Radar Countermeasures UPA 35 PPI (Plan Position Indicator) at the Communications and Electronic Museum at Kingston, Ontario - August 2000.
    Courtesy of Bob Agar.

  3. SAGE console at the Communications and Electronic Museum at Kingston, Ontario - August 2000.
    The card reads as follows: This console was used in the underground Air Defence centre in North Bay, Ontario. Part of the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, this display showed all of the air activity in the 22nd NORAD Region (eastern Canada). From this position, an Air Weapons Controller could direct interceptor aircraft towards any unidentified aircraft which had entered Canada's airspace. The data from a dozen remote radar stations was displayed at the same time. In addition, the controller could access all of the radios at those sites in order to have direct communications with the pilot flying the intercept mission. It was even possible to put the aircraft under "remote control" of the SAGE computer to ensure that supersonic intercepts could be made with great precision.
    Courtesy of Bob Agar.



 

Updated: February 3, 2005