Gap Filler Detail
1960 – National Archives of Canada
10-36-80/5 V 1
DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE
MINUTE SHEET
Referred to: A/CCE
Minute (4)
Queries raise in Min (1) as well as those posed in your 10-36-80/5 (JDPG) 14 Oct 60 have been placed on the agenda of the Communications and Electronics Technical Implementation Meeting for the 14 Nov 60. A copy of the agenda has been attached for your convenience. Eng 5-5 will attend the above meeting where he will be given the opportunity to personally present CCE problems.
(KP Likeness) G/C,
ATSC
20144
S949-108 (ATSC)
Ottawa Ont
7 Nov 60
Commander
GEEIA Systems Management Office
Room 276 #4 Temporary Bldg
56 Lyon Street
Ottawa, Ontario
C&E Technical Implementation Group - Agenda
Agenda items for the meeting of 14 Nov 60 are submitted as follows:
- RCAF adaptation of FPS-7, FPS-26 and FPS-27 tower designs to Canadian Standards - procedures for arranging for GEEIA concurrence.
- Scale of UFA-35 Consoles at CADIN sites - 4602nd message E-6219 recommends reduction from 5 to 4.
- Requirements for the video enhancer GLA-8, provision by GEEIA of complete details such as weight, size, power and voltage.
- Equipment configuration in the FPS-27 tower - arrangements for supply of information.
- SAGE Annex - Concurrence of GEEIA of the Stage I and Stage III building design.
- DMCC & SAHF
- presentation of RCAF-approved preliminary equipment layouts.
- presentation of GEEIA standard equipment layuts.
- RCAF Standard GATR Building - GEEIA concurrence.
- Removal of antenna poles at sites where the GATR building is being located at an existing Tx or Rx site - C7, C15, C20, C21, C34 and C36.
- Detailed power, building and equipment requirements for the Gap-Filler Radar - App "A" itemizes typical queries that require resolution
RCAF/CCE personnel have requested that GEEIA Gap Filler personnel be made available for detailed consultation on 15 Nov 60. This Headquarters feels that personal discussion between GEEIA and RCAF/CCE design personnel is required in order that errors and engineering changes may be kept to a minimum.
WE Johnston
Wing Commander
for Chief of the Air Staff
APPENDIX "A"
TO S949-108 (ATSC)
7 Nov 60
- What is the maximum floor loading and the design floor loading for the Gap Filler Building?
- What is the maximum weight per foot of the combined cable and cable troughing?
- Will the equipment be duplex or simplex?
- What is the heat dissipation, power and voltage requirements for each item of equipment?
- Will the heat exchanger remain the same size and will it be part of the electronic equipment, ie, (GFE)?
- Will the air intake louvers remain the same size and will they be part of the building, ie, (supplied by RCAF)?
- Confirm that the RCAF provide the diesel generators and control equipment for the generators.
- Clarify the distinction between reliable and non-reliable power and the requirements for one, two and three generators.
- Discuss the possibility of having the towers erected while heavy construction equipment is still on site.
- What are the communications requirements at sites with and without forestry facilities?