Sonobuoys & Outdoor Intrusion Detectors

Brooke Clarke 2011 - 2022





Background
Sonobuoys
    Types of Sonobuoys
    CNU-239/E Shipping Tube 
    A Size
    Operational Life
    Radio Transmitter
    Radio Channels
        Black Box Beacon Transmitter
    DIrectional Frequency Analysis & Recording type acoustic sensor (DIFAR)
    Reserve Batteries 
        Reserve Battery Patents     
        Light, Emergency Sea Rescue Marker
   
Table of Sonobuoys
    SSQ-36
    SSQ-53B
        Battery
Moved to Bathythermographs web page
    Glass Slides
    Dittmore & Freimuth
    Sippican
       XBT-T4
        Resistance
    Bathythermograph Patents
Niskin Bottle
Patents
References


moved to SUS: Signal Underwater Sound Mk 84
 
Sonobuoy Aircraft Systems
    Receivers
    ARR-52
     Others
Outdoor Intrusion Detectors based on Sonobuoy Technology
    Link between Vietnam Intrusion Detectors and Navy
    Construction
    Mines for Noise
    1st Generation
ARFBUOY
USQ-42 Receiver
R-1617A/USQ-46 Receiver
GSQ-171
TS-2963
ID-1721 Indicator WANTED TO BUY
PP-6446A/USQ-46 Power Supply    
    GSQ-154
    GSQ-160
Patents
    Sonobuoy
    SONAR
    Dr. Breed & Hughes
    Launching Sonobuoy
Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD)
    ASQ-8
    C820 Control Panel
    17H-4 Gamma Slinger
    References
    MAD patents
SONAR Countermeasures
Sound Ranging
Hydrophones
    Patents
Seismometer
Hazeltine Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly A22267-1
Roswell Connection
Unknown Sonobuoy - What is it?
Unknown Sonobuoy No. 2 (Greece)
Underwater Communications
    BQC-1 Underwater Telephone
    Communication Buoy
Submarine Missile Hanger
Submerged Signal Ejector
UAV
    Global Hawk
Command Activated Sonobuoy (CAS)
Sonobuoy Training
Related
P-3C Systems
Submarine Laser Communications
SOSUS
Missile Launch Patents
Movies
Books
YouTube
Related
Links
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Bathythermographs moved to the Bathythermographs web page.
Niskin Bottle moved to the Bathythermographs web page
SSXBT Model ST-1 moved to the Bathythermographs web page\SSXBT.

Background

During the Vietnam era the "electronic battlefield" (book: Military Communications: A Test for Technology) was developed and it included various outdoor intrusion alarms (my name for these devices).  Some, like the PSR-1 Seismic Intrusion Detector, used wire between the sensors and the main unit and others used a radio transmitter in the sensor and the main unit was a radio receiver.

The frequency spectrum has allocations for different users (see Frequency Allocations).  One band is used by aircraft for communication and navigation (108 to 136 MHz).  A number of Vietnam era outdoor intrusion sensors used this band.

Another band is used for sonobuoy operations by the Navy (162.25 to 173.50 MHz with  31 channels with 375 kHz spacing). This page is about these outdoor intrusion sensors.

Department of Defense Training Film MF11-5514
Bugging the Battlefield pt1-2 1969 Defense Department Electronic Eavesdropping Vietnam War
Bugging the Battlefield pt2-2 1969 Defense Department Electronic Eavesdropping Vietnam War
Electronic Eavesdropping, Vietnam War: "Bugging the Battlefield" 1969 Defense Department (30:28) - combined part 1 & 2

Submarines & the Noises they Make

The early work on SOund Navigation And Ranging (Wiki: SONAR), which was named after RAdio Navigation And Ranging (Wiki: RADAR), was done utilizing audio frequencies were an operator would listen on headphones (for those systems that used stereo) or a loudspeaker.  The first sonobuoys also used audio with a human operator listening to the sound.  This is called passive SONAR (code name Jezebel).  There are no pings and whoever is doing the listening is not giving away their presence or position.  When it works it's the preferred method and is by far the most common.  In the 1950s the SOund SUrveillance System (Wiki: SOSUS, my page) which makes use of LOw Frequency Analysis and Recording (LOFAR) rather than the use of human audible sound was put into service.  This worked on snorkeling diesel electric subs (Wiki) and on nuclear powered subs like the Soviet Hotel (Wiki), Echo (Wiki) & November (Wiki) class subs (HEN).

Active SONAR comes in two flavors, the most commonly known is the active ping like in any movie involving submarines.  A ping is sent out and the time measured until it returns.  The early pings were audible to humans, later ultrasonic pings were used and later still the frequency of the ping changed it into a chirp.  If the propagation speed is known the distance to the target can be calculated and with the later types the radial speed of the target can be determined.  The less well known active SONAR method (code name Julie) involves setting off an explosion of a couple of pounds of TNT using either the Mk-15 (Mod-12) or Mk-61 Signal Underwater Sound (SUS).  The explosion generates a spike in the underwater pressure which is similar to a ping at all possible frequencies, it's the most useful type of ping, but can only be used occasionally because it requires a small bomb for each pulse.

Modern  diesel electric subs are very quiet when running on battery power underwater and going slow.  The explosive type active SONAR is good at detecting these subs.

It turns out Radiosondes have a very strong relationship with Sonobuoys and Pilot Balloons.

Sonobuoys use water activated batteries as are most radiosonde batteries and they both use VHF or UHF radio transmissions to send data/audio.  They both have an operational life measured in minutes or hours, not days or any time longer.  Both are made to be light weight.  They are both considered single use, i.e. expendable.

Pilot Balloon (PIBAL) are part of learning about the upper air as are radiosondes.  They overlap in that PIBALs do not carry a radiosonde, but are used by themselves or with a PIBAL light for low light conditions.

Sonobuoys

The word sonobuoy is a  portmanteau of sonar and buoy according to Wiki.  The first U.S. sonobuoy was the CRT-1 used in W.W.II.  Like the Mk 24 "Fido" Mine (Wiki) it could only hear cavitating propellers.

Submarines Diving

In most movies about submarines there is the diving practice where the captain says "Dive . . . Dive . . .  Dive" and you hear a Klaxon horn (Wiki) sound.  A big thing is made of timing how long it takes to dive to some depth.  This comes about because aircraft specify how they turn by how long it takes to fly a full circle. For medium size airplanes this might be two minutes.  Note the rate of turning is specified by the time for a circle, not bank angle or the diameter of the circle.  So if an aircraft flies over a submarine and makes a tight circle to come back to attack it a second time the submarine has maybe 2 minutes to dive to safety.

This emergency dive process will go faster if the submarine is full speed ahead since there are some similarities between aircraft and submarines in the sense of how they respond to the elevator.  At full speed ahead the propeller(s) will cavitate (Wiki) which makes a lot more noise than normal running.  This extra noise was needed in order for the CRT-1 Sonobuoy and the Mk 24 "Fido" Mine (homing Torpedo) to work.

Types of Sonobuoys

ADAR: Advanced Deplorable Acoustic Receiver
ADLFP: Advanced  Deplorable Low Frequency Projector
ALFEA: Active Low Frequency Electro-Acoustic
BARRA: means Listening in an indigenous Australian language - The Barra Sonobuoy System, Barra Sonobuoy Design, horizontal array
BT: Bathythermograph
CAMBS: Command Activated Multi-Beam Sonobuoy
CASS: Command Activated Sonobuoy System
CFS: Command Function Select (set function with 2-way radio when buoy is in water)
CO: Calibrated Omni type acoustic sensor (5 - 20 kHz)
CSO: Constant Shallow Omni type acoustic sensor (30 - 5000 Hz)
DICASS Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
DIFAR: DIrectional Frequency Analysis & Recording type acoustic sensor (5 - 2400 Hz)
EER: Extended Echo Ranging - uses small explosion as sound source see patent 2402391
EFS: Electronic Function Selector (RF Chan, Life, Depth, Sensor type, AGC)
HIDAR: High Dynamic Range DIFAR
LOFAR: LOw Frequency Analysis & Recording - low cost, the waterfall display good for classifying a contact
RDRH: Rotating Directional Receiving Hydrophone
REFS: optical Remote Electronic Function Select (either while in launch tube (easy) or in water (requires laser))
RO: Range Only
The word sono-buoy is based on sound and a floating object.  See the CRT-1 web page for some history on acoustic sonic buoys.

Sonobuoys (Wiki) have been around since about May 1941 when P. M. S. Blackett, head of the British Admiralty committee for antisubmarine measures, proposed the idea.  In June 1942, the AN/CRT-1 became the first operational sonobuoy which was launched from a ship in a convoy, and on July 25, 1942, the first successful launch of a sonobuoy from an aircraft was made from a U.S. Army B-18 bomber (Wiki). (from: Not Ready for Retirement: The Sonobuoy Approaches Age 65 by Holler, Roger, Horbach, Arthur, McEachern, James).

  They have nomenclature SSQ-nn.  They are a part of anti-submarine warfare (Wiki).

"All sonobuoys currently in inventory are normally launched from standard A-size tubes via pneumatic, free fall, or a Cartridge Actuated Device (CAD).  Shipboard personnel may also launch them by hand or Over the Side (OTS). All are powered by either salt water activated magnesium or silver chloride, lithium chemistry, or thermal batteries and are designed to scuttle at some point after usable or selected life expires."  from Approved Navy Training System Plan, for the Consolidated Sonobuoys.  N88-NTSP-A-50-8910B/A SEPTEMBER 1998

There's a problem with airborne sonobuoy receivers being used with MAD.   MAD works best when the plane is flying at about 500 feet.  This is also true for the periscope detecting RADAR.  BUT . . . .
The sonobuoy receiver will have relativity short rang when the plane is at 500 feet.  Much higher would allow better sonobuoy coverage.  Not sure what's an optimum altitude for dropping sonobuoys.   The new Navy P-8 (Wiki) no longer uses MAD and flies much higher, both for more sonobuoy area coverage and for better fuel consumption than it gets when flying low.  The P-8 has the AN/APY-10 RADAR (Wiki) but as far as I can tell it does not work as well at high altitudes because the ocean surface scatter gets poorer at higher altitudes.  The poorest result is looking straight down on the water.

CNU-239/E Shipping Tube 

This may be the standard shipping container for A size sonobuoys.  It's 45" long and an octagon 6-3/4" across the flats.  One end unscrews and when shipping the cap is tapped to the main body.  The weight depends on what model in inside.
CNU-239/E Sonobuoy
                  A Size Shipping Tube

Transport Canada SU 0850 makes provision for shipping experimental sonobuoys in this container.
But there are limitations:

(a) all the dangerous goods are contained within the aluminum body of the experimental sonobuoy described by drawings no. 200896, 200898, 200702, 200671, 200836 and 200837 deposited by Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems, a division of Ultra Electronics Canada Defense Inc. on Transport Canada's Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate file A 4069-0850;

(b) the sonobuoy contains a single UN0454 Igniter having a net explosive quantity equal to or less than 0.15 g;

(c) the sonobuoy contains a maximum of 2 cylinders of UN1013, Carbon dioxide, each having a capacity equal to or less than 0.120 L;

(d) the sonobuoy contains a quantity equal to or less than 40 "C" size lithium batteries that meet the requirement of paragraph (1) of Special Provision 34 of Schedule 2 of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations;

(e) the sonobuoy is packaged in the military performance specification plastic shipping container type CNU-239/E specified in the drawing 012-159-0009-00 deposited by Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems, a division of Ultra Electronics Canada Defence Inc. on Transport Canada's Transport Dangerous Goods Directorate file A 4069-0850;


A Size

Modern sonobuoys have an outside diameter of 4-7/8" (fit 4-15/16" launch tube commonly called 5 inch) and are 1 yard long (36").  The max weight is 39 pounds. 
This is a convenient size for one man to handle on a P-3 aircraft (Wiki).  The larger sizes are not easy to handle.  There are smaller sizes based on getting some integer number of them inside the A size outline.  3 each is called "F" and 2 each is called "G".  The other sizes are pretty much not used in volume.

Operational Life

Sometimes the service life can also be programmed prior to launch for 1, 3 or 8 hours.  After that time the sonobuoy will sink to the bottom.  This can be made to happen by exploding a resistor (acting as a squib) applied to the float bag.

Radio Transmitter

A VHF vertical whip antenna is used.  One feature of this type of antenna is that there's a null directly above the buoy so when an aircraft directly overflys the buoy there's a characteristic signal drop out.  This allows confirming the buoy location.  The 1 Watt transmitter is FM modulated and covers an audio bandwidth of 10 Hz to 20 kHz (about the same as a Hi-Fi system or entertainment FM radio).  Note that there is no provision to hear the 37 k Hz ping made by Cockpit Voice Recorders or Flight Data Recorders.  The FAA and Navy need to coordinate this.

Sonobuoy Receivers & Radio Channels

See the VHF part of the Frequency Assignment table for some common ways the spectrum is used.  For example, FM broadcast band is 88 to 108 MHz, 108 to 136 MHz is reserved for aircraft communications and navigation.  136 to 174 is called the High VHF band (the common "Scanner" band), the old analog TV channel 7 was 174 to 180 MHz.

In the book US Naval Weapons, Norman Friedman, 1983 (Ref 19) it's mentioned that during W.W.II the CRT-1 operated in the frequency range of 67 to 72 MHz and that post war sonobuoys operated in the 162.25 to 173.5 MHz range. 

Generation Zero

The CRT-1 Sonobuoys started out working in the VHF low band.  First with six channels between 62.9 and 66.9 then another six channels were added in the 67.6 to 71.7 MHz range.  That's a total of twelve channels.  This was during W.W. II.

Note:  The eBay listing for a sonobuoy receiver "R-156/ARR-16B Sonobuoy Receiver 62-72 MCs." is in error by leaving off the "1" in front of the frequency.
R-156/ARR-16B covers 162 - 172 MHz.  It turns out the eBay listing was correct.  Note that the new VHF high band is pretty much 100 MHz higher than the prior VHF low band.

1st Generation

It appears that the first generation sonobuoys only had 16 channels spaced 0.75 kHz apart between 162.25 and 173.50.  This was probably done using a single crystal in tube type electronics circuit.

2nd Generation

At some point (When?)  the channel spacing was cut in half.  At that time to maintain channel number comparability with the old system, the new channels were added in between the old channels as shown in the table. (chan 1) 162.25 to 173.50 with spacing of 0.375 MHz.
The R-1170 ARR-52A sonobuoy receiver has 31 crystal controlled channels.
This is the time frame of NAVAIR 28-SSQ-500-1 (1976).
Sonobuoys
Sonobuoy
SSQ-
Channels
41, 41A, 41B, 38, 50, 53, 57, 62
1-31
36
12, 14, 16
71
3, 5, 7
47A, 47B
1 to 12

3rd Generation

At some point (1980?) the total number of channels was increased to 99 by adding channels starting at 136.000 MHz (chan 32) and going to 161.125 (chan 99) with the same 0.375 MHz channel spacing.  Is there a channel 00? No only 1 to 99.
So the band plan in frequency order is,  the new lower frequency channels from 136.000 to 161.125, skipping 161.500 (now Chan 100) and 161.875 (now Chan 101), then the 2nd generation channels from 162.250 (chan 1) to 173.125 MHz (Chan 31).

In Channel number order:
Chan 1: 162.250 to Chan 31: 173.125; Chan 32: 136.000 to Chan 99: 161.125.

USQ-46 (USQ, below)

The USQ-46 receiver has 3000 channels with a 6.25 kHz channel spacing.   
If the received frequency is below 162.000 MHz then the Freq_MHz = 145.525 + <chan#> * 0.00625,
if the frequency is equal or greater than 162.000 then Freq_MHz = 162.000 + <chan#> * 0.00625.
So there's a strong sonobuoy flavor to how the USQ-46 does channel assignment.
If you know about this, tell me.

The difference in channel spacing = 375 kHz / 6.25 kHz = 60 exactly.
USQ-46 Channel 1 = 145.53125 or 162.00625

Black Box

This is a beacon transmitter that just transmits a narrow pulse in the sonobuoy RF frequency range.  But, the signal requires a receiver with about a 150 kHz channel bandwidth.
Since the only information it sends is it's center frequency, probably one of a small list of possible frequencies and one of two possible duty cycles the process gain is extremely high. 

During the Vietnam era there were airplanes circling over areas where ground based sensors were placed to relay the VHF sensor signals to a ground station (Wiki).  This page was made because of the similarity of ground based intrusion sensors and sonobuoys.  They both work the same way and both have the same reception requirements.

My guess is that today there is a satellite system doing the same thing.  This system would receive in the 136 to 173 MHz range and use digital IF processing, similar to what's done in the HP 4395A combined spectrum network and impedance analyzer.  If that was the case then it would be straight forward to have the ability for this receiver to receive not only sonobuoy signals but also the waveform used by the Black Box.

This makes sense in that the system would have world wide coverage without the need to have planes circling 24/7 like in Igloo White.

The WiNRADiO MS-8118/WSB Sonobuoy Telemetry Multichannel Receiving System (WiNRADiO) covers 136.000-173.500 MHz (custom frequency ranges available) with an IF bandwidth of 30 kHz @ -6 dB.
They also have a WiNRADiO AX-61S Sonobuoy Telemetry Antenna that covers 135 to 175 MHz.
The G315i receiver can be ordered with an optional hardware wide band demodulator that's the same as in the sonobuoy receiver: WR-G315i Receiver Options or for the WR-G315e Receiver Options .
Note the black box beacon transmitter may be associated with the SEAL Delivery Vehicle (Wiki: SDV).
That would be perfect for receiving the Black Box signal (thanks to Chip Veres) for letting me know about the MS-8118.  But this raises a new question, what else generates such a wideband signal?

The transmission frequencies of some black box units are: 164.5375 & 164.5875 MHz.  Note neither of these is on channel 4 (164.50 MHz) and they differ by 50 kHz, not likely an accident.

Distributed Sensor Networks, Second Edition: Image and Sensor Signal Processing (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series)
Iyengar, S. Sitharama- book on order 14 Nov 2015 has info on Igloo White and may have some insights into the satellite system?

Sonobuoy Frequency Table


Chan
Freq
Chan Freq Chan
Freq
1
162.25
6 166.00 11
169.75
17
162.625 22
166.375 27
170.125
2
163.00
7
166.75 12
170.50
18
163.375 23
167.125 28
170.875
3
163.75
8
167.50 13
171.25
19
164.125 24
167.875 29
171.625
4
164.50
9
168.25 14
172.00
20
164.875 25
168.625 30
172.375
5
165.25
10
169.0 15
172.75
21
165.625 26
169.375 31
173.125

16
173.50

Channel 15 (172.75 MHz)  is used as an emergency search and rescue frequency.

Command Function Select (CFS)

The aircraft can transmit to the sonobuoy to change the commands while it's floating in the water which is much better than the old way of making the command decisions prior to launch.
The UHF frequencies used for this are: 282.900, 291.300, 291.400, 291.500 MHz
Receivers

Directional Frequency Analysis & Recording type acoustic sensor (DIFAR)

These buoys use directional hydrophones (Wiki) covering 5 or 10 Hz to 2400 Hz combined with a magnetic bearing sensor and transmit this information.
They can be used to passively listen, to listen for reflected pings or the shock wave from a small explosion.
Whale researchers use them (Tools > DIFAR Sonobuoys).

Because the lower frequency limit is below Hi-Fi audio, and the upper frequency of 24 kHz is above the 10 kHz upper end, consumer grade tape recorders (Wiki) could not be used so instrumentation type recorders were used like the

With the advent of Digital Audio Tape (Wiki: DAT) recorders the DIFAR signal could be recorded on a DAT tape.
The following is a frequency spectrum of the DIFAR signal with a voice channel added for use with a DAT tape recorder.
Frequency
            Spectrum of the DIFAR signal with a voice channel added for
            use with a DAT tape recorder
Analog circuitry, like using the LM1496 Balanced Modulator-Demodulator can be used to manipulate these signals.
general
Note seismic sensors (geophones) respond to frequencies below 10 Hz so there's an overlap with DIFAR and other hydrophone frequencies.

DIFAR Patents

3093808 Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy, Gimber George A, Scarcelli Albert F, Tatnall George J, Secretary of the Navy , Jun 11, 1963, 367/4, 441/33, 441/25, 343/709, 455/99 - Prior art sonobuoys were 3' long, 5" diameter and weighed 16 to 20 pounds limiting aircraft time on station and had a max depth of about 50'.  This one is 15" long, about 3" dia and weighs about 5 pounds with a max depth of 300'.  also see 3047259 Speed brake retarding mechanism for an air-dropped store, George J Tatnall, Albert F Scarcelli, Navy, 1962-07-31, -

3116471 Radio sonobuoy system, Jesse J Coop, Dec 31, 1963, 367/3, 367/5, 367/113, 367/101, 367/126, 367/115, 318/638 -  In the present invention a multi-beam directional hydrophone is utilized in a radio sonobuoy system whereby an immediate quadrant location and an accurate distance measurement of a reflecting object from the multi-beam directional sonobuoy can be obtained from a single pressure pulse generated in the water area of interest.  - DIFAR

3444508 Directional sonar system, Ernest A Granfors, Don L Loveless, Charles F Boyle, Harry W Kompanek, Sparton, 1969-05-13, - DIFAR sonobuoy

3727177 Short schuler attitude/heading reference system, F Fuller, D Walters, Navy, 1973-04-10, - orthogonal flux gate magnetometers mounted on a compound pendulum
3818523
Steven L. Stillman
3987404
Underwater Direction Finding System is the patent that defines how a directional (the DI in DIFAR) sonobuoy can be made.

3987404 Underwater Direction Finding System, Sanders, (filed: Nov 3 1967) Issued: Oct 19, 1976, 367/3; 367/125; 367/126 -
"An underwater direction finding system includes a pair of directional hydrophones and a compass in a novel arrangement which associates the signals from all three elements with a single subcarrier.  Subsequent demodulation of the subcarrier signals in an airplane or ship then provides directional information directly referrenced to the earth's magnetic coordinates."
Calls:
US2754493 Indicator for Sound Direction Finder
Feb 4, 1955 1956
LIPPEL
US2837730 Deflection Method for CRT
Aug 4, 1952 Jun 3, 1958
IAUAEM
US2867788 Object Locating Systems (sub hunting)
Feb 27, 1943 Jan 6, 1959
HARRY
US3022462 Frequency Modulation Detector System
(see below)
Jan 19, 1953 Feb 20, 1962
FREQUENCY MODULATION DETECTOR SYSTEM
US3148351 Directional Hydrophone System
(see below)
Jun 12, 1961 Sep 8, 1964
FILTER
US3160850 Underwater Locating Apparatus
(Glomar Explorer?)
Dec 27, 1960 Dec 8, 1964
DUDLEY
US3176262 Directional Sonar Systems
(dipping SONAR)
Apr 6, 1960 Mar 30, 1965
EHRLICH ETAL, DIRECTIONAL SONAR SYSTEMS
Raytheon
Referenced by:

US4872146 May 23, 1988 Oct 3, 1989 Canadian Patents & Development Limited Method and apparatus for simulating phase coherent signal reflections in media containing randomly distributed targets
US4879694 Mar 4, 1988 Nov 7, 1989 Rockwell International Corporation Difar demultiplexer circuit
US5253223 Apr 27, 1992 Oct 12, 1993 Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap A.S. Seismic device
US5265066 Apr 27, 1992 Nov 23, 1993 Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s Seismic cable
US5442590 Apr 27, 1992 Aug 15, 1995 Den norske stats oljeselskap a.s Seismic cable device
US6108270 Jul 6, 1999 Aug 22, 2000
Torpedo seeker head having directional detection independent of frequency
US6622647 Jun 26, 2001 Sep 23, 2003
Active noise cancellation for a torpedo seeker head
US8059485 Jun 4, 2008 Nov 15, 2011 NEC Corporation Communication system, information collecting method and base station apparatus



3461421 Advanced Direction Finding Sonobuoy System, (Collins Radio), Aug 12, 1969, 367/124; 367/3; 367/6; 367/125; 367/126; 367/128
Calls:
2898589 Hemispherical Acoustic Phase Compensator, F.R. Abbott, Aug 4, 1959,
3022462 Frequency Modulation Detector System, Philco, Feb 20, 1962, - sonobuoy to aircraft
sonobuoy includes mag bearing and hydrophone.
Calls:
2476301
2631270

3148351 Directional Hydrophone System, Bartlett Labs, Sep 8, 1964, 367/125; 367/3; 367/124
Calls:
2903673
2946980
2977570
3000078
3027627
3030606
3239799 Sonar Directional Beam Focusing System, GE, Mar 8, 1966,
Referenced by:



ignee Title
US4078222 Nov 20, 1969 Mar 7, 1978 The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy Direction determining apparatus
US4371957 Dec 12, 1969 Feb 1, 1983 Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of National Defence Antisubmarine warfare system
US4604733 Jan 3, 1984 Aug 5, 1986 Westinghouse Electric Corp. Apparatus for determining range and bearing
US4653033 Oct 4, 1984 Mar 24, 1987 Thomson-CSF Goniotelemetry system
US4691305 Sep 5, 1985 Sep 1, 1987 The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air force Automatic attenuator for sonobuoys
US4872146 May 23, 1988 Oct 3, 1989 Canadian Patents & Development Limited Method and apparatus for simulating phase coherent signal reflections in media containing randomly distributed targets
US4914734 Jul 21, 1989 Apr 3, 1990 The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force Intensity area correlation addition to terrain radiometric area correlation
US5859915 Apr 30, 1997 Jan 12, 1999 American Technology Corporation Lighted enhanced bullhorn
US5885129 Mar 25, 1997 Mar 23, 1999 American Technology Corporation Directable sound and light toy
US7088830 Mar 18, 2002 Aug 8, 2006 American Technology Corporation Parametric ring emitter
US7109789 Jan 21, 2003 Sep 19, 2006 American Technology Corporation Modulator—amplifier
US7224219 Sep 18, 2006 May 29, 2007 American Technology Corporation Modulator-amplifier
US7564981 Oct 21, 2004 Jul 21, 2009 American Technology Corporation Method of adjusting linear parameters of a parametric ultrasonic signal to reduce non-linearities in decoupled audio output waves and system including same

4017822 Bearing determining apparatus including single channel multiplexing, William T. Rusch, Navy, App: 1969-11-24, SECRET, Pub: 1977-04-12, - DIFAR system

4114137 Directional sonobuoy, Russell I. Mason, John R. Dale, Secretary Of The Navy, Filed: Dec 19, 1974, Pub: Sep 12, 1978, 367/171, 441/1, 441/28 -

Earth's Field Magnetic Detectors

Also see my Flux Gate patents web page.

2252059 Method and a device for determining the magnitudes of magnetic fields, Gustav Barth, Priority Dec 24, 1936, Pub Aug 12, 1941 - rod fluxgate
2560132 Unbalanced magnetometer, Schmitt Otto H, Jul 10, 1951, 324/255, 340/870.33 - second harmonic
2488341 Detection system, Thaddeus Slonczewski, Bell Telephone Labor Inc, Nov 15, 1949, 324/246, 340/870.33, 324/254, 324/253 - moving parts
Calls:
2485931 Magnetic field strength indicator - no moving parts
2468968 Magnetic field strength indicator
2027393 Cathode ray device
2047609 Magnetic field direction and intensity finder
2053154 Direct-current indicator
2438964 Magnetic field detector - second harmonic magnetometer

Magnetic buoy

2397137 Magnetic controlling device, Glennon James B, Maltby Wilson R, Sellman Albert H, filed Jun 25, 1941, pub Mar 26, 1946, 340/850, 324/259, 340/551, 102/417

2644243 Control compass, George E Breeze, Russell I Mason, Us Navy, Filed: Nov 20, 1944, Pub: Jul 7, 1953, 361/280, 33/363.00Q -  for use in sonobuoy, eliminates vertical component of Earth's mag field for more accurate mag bearing (for: DIFAR)    

3526002
Magnebuoy, Ramond C Waddel, Filing date Mar 31, 1960, Publication dateAug 25, 1970 (maybe withheld secret), 340/852

Reserve Batteries

First generation sonobuoys and radiosondes used Zinc Carbon batteries, like were used to power contemporary tube radios.  But within a year or less both sonobuoys and radiosondes switched to water activated reserve batteries.

It's interesting that the radiosonde design treats the battery as a non furnished item to be installed by the end user.  They were packaged in sealed tin cans (Wiki) that were vacuum sealed (like coffee) and will last for many decades.  But the sonobuoy design has the battery built into the unit and is not at all user serviceable.  The sealing I've seen on sonobuoys is not good enough to keep atmospheric moisture from getting to the battery and that means some of the sonobuoys will no work at all or will have a life shorter than expected because of battery degradation.

The reserve batteries used in proximity fuzed artillery shells have the electrolyte sealed in glass ampules and so have a shelf life of many many decades.

Reserve batteries have the electrolyte and anode separated.  This allows them to be stored for more than a decade and still retain their full capacity when activated.  Example applications are hearing
aid batteries, artillery shells and sonobuoys, weather balloons, torpedoes.  Also see Proximity Fuze Reserve Battery glass bulbs (Christmas tree lights)

Salt water activated magnesium

Because of the green particles that can be seen on the black plastic I suspect the chemistry is one of the following in the SSQ-53B:

Reserve Battery Patents

A reserve battery is one where the electrolyte is stored seperated from the electrodes.  They can sit for decades and when activated (heat, water, gas, mechanical force) are then a battery.
Wiki: Water-activated battery

2474716 Salt-water battery, John T Beechlyn, Submarine Signal Co, Filed: Sep 18, 1944 (5 year delay), Pub: Jun 28, 1949, 429/82, 429/94, 429/119 - light buoy.  Iron and Magnesium
2491640 Deferred action battery, Ivan C Blake, Lawrence H Harriss, John B Mullen, Burgess Battery, App: 1945-06-20, W.W.II, Pub: 1949-12-20, 429/119; 429/152 - continuous immersion on water OK, for light or radio
2590584 Sea Water Battery, Bel Tel Labs, Mar 25 1952, 429/119; 429/152; 429/231.6 - silver chloride on silver & magnesium electrodes in salt water.
2640090 Battery, Leo E Pucher, William A Cunningham, Willard Storage Battery, 1953-05-26, - water activated reserve battery
2669596 Reserve Battery Enclosure, Navy, Feb 16 1954, 429/8; 116/1; 429/119 -
2684395 Electric battery, Melvin F Chubb, Eagle Picher, 1954-07-20, - for balloon use "The invention is disclosed in relation to battery cells comprising a magnesium metal cuprous chloride couple, with water as the electrolyte."
2699461 Defered Action Battery, Burgess, Jan 11 1955, 429/119; 429/152; 429/162 -
2715652 Electric Battery for Airborne Equipment, Eagle-Picher Co, Aub 16 1955, 429/118; 429/152; 429/162 : -40 to 160 def F operation
3148090 Salt water battery, Saslow Seymour, Espey Mfg & Electronics, 1964-09-08, - polystyrene sheets & seperators - much easier to make and lasts 50% longer
3178316 Reserve Battery, Servel Inc, Apr 13, 1965, 429/119; 429/130; 429/210 -
3343988 Saltwater battery, Jr Lloyd Lowndes Friend, Espey Mfg & Electronics, 1967-09-26, -
A typical specification for a nominal 60-hour sonobuoy battery of the magnesium-silver chloride type will call for a voltage of 15.0+/-0.5 volts when discharged continuously for its full life into a resistive load of 60 ohms (nominal discharge current of 0.250 ampere) under variations in saltwater temperature from 0 C. to --30 C. and under variations in the saline content of the water from 1.5 to 3.0 percent.
A typical magnesium-silver chloride battery specification will call for the output voltage to reach a minimum maintained level of 14.5 volts in 120 seconds after activation under the load conditions described above.

For a nominal 60-hour battery of the magnesium-cuprous chloride type, a typical specification will call for a voltage of 14.6+/-1.0 volts when discharged continuously into a resistive load of 66 ohms (nominal discharge current of 0.212 ampere) under variations in saltwater temperature from 0° C. to -30° C. and under variations in the saline content of the water from 1.5 to 3.6 percent.
A typical magnesium-cuprous chloride battery specification will call for the output voltage to reach a level of 11.0 volts in 60 seconds and a minimum maintained level of 13.6 volts in 180 seconds under the load conditions described above.
3462309 Magnesium anode primary cell, Burton J Wilson, Navy, 1969-08-19, - "... low voltage power sources for operation of sea based devices such as sonar buoys and light beacons. "
3767933 Power Supply having a Plurality of Power Sources that are Sequentially Placed on the Load One at a Time, Oct 23 1973 307/48; 307/66 -
3966497 Seawater Battery, ESB Inc, Jun 29 1976, 429/119 -
4601961 Bilaminar Seawater Battery, Navy, Jul 22, 1986, 429/119; 429/127 -
Calls:
5395707 Environmentally safe water-activated battery, ACR Elec, Mar 7 1995, 429/119; 429/128; 429/130 -

Salt water activated silver chloride

2564495 Deferred action primary battery, John B Mullen, Burgess Battery Co, Filed: Feb 27, 1947, Pub: Aug 14, 1951, 429/119, 429/152 - plain water activation, for radio B+  
2637756 Deferred action battery, Joseph J Coleman, Milton E Wilke, Burgess Battery Co, May 5, 1953, 429/119 -    
2655551 Magnesium-cuprous chloride reserve battery, Sec of Army, Filed: Jul 31, 1950, Pub: Oct 13, 1953, 429/119, 429/152 - "Deferred action batteries of the magnesium water-cuprous chloride type have attained considerable importance as "meterological' or 'one shot' batteries due to their high capacity per unit of weight and volume, their excellent Operatting characteristics even at low temperatures and their ease of activation with water."
2699461 Deferred action battery, Milton E Wilke, Burgess Battery Co, Jan 11, 1955, 429/119, 429/152, 429/162 - water activated 

The following water activated batteries are probably all for uses relating to weather balloons or Radiosonde battery use.
BA-259 Water Activated Battery, NSN: 6135-00-635-6370, Eagle-Picher Ind. Colorado Springs: A: 1.5 & 6  Volts, B: 115 Volts

BA-292.AM Water Activated Battery, NSN: 6223-00-032-2387, Wisco Div, ESB Inc, Raleigh NC - for flashlight bulb on balloon
BA-380/AMQ-9, NSN: 6135-753-2276, Ray-O-Vac division, Mfg Co. Wonewoc, Wisconsin - for AMQ-9

Light, Emergency Sea Rescue Marker

A water activated battery powers a GE 131 flashlight lamp (1.3 Volts, 1.3 Watts, i.e. draws 1 Amp)

Box
Stk. No. 6230-299-5653
Type J-2, with Water Activated Battery.
Spec. MIL-L-7396A(ASG) Application: Life Rafts
One Each    Item No. 4
Contract No. AF 30(635)-23525
Fulton Mfg. Corp. Mfg/Contr., Wauseon, Ohio
A-1 A8-  8/61 Reinspection Date.......... 8/64
Plastic Housing
Light Sea Rescue Marker
Type J-2   MIL-L-7368A(ASC)
Specification
Part No. N-45A
Fulton Mfg. Corp.
U.S.
----------------------------------------------
Caution: Do Not Remove Plug for
Inspection.

Photos

Fig 1  Box
Light,
                    Emergency Sea Rescue Marker Stk. No. 6230-299-5653
                    Type J-2, with Water Activated Battery. Spec.
                    MIL-L-7396A(ASG) Applicationi: Life Rafts One Each
                    Item No. 4 Contract No. AF 30(635)-23525 Fulton Mfg.
                    Corp. Mfg/Contr., Wauseon, Ohio A-1 A8- 8/61
                    Reinspection Date.......... 8/64
Fig 2 The Aluminum tube is to protect the plastic
light housing from being broken and is supposed
to be in place when deployed.
Light,
                    Emergency Sea Rescue Marker Stk. No. 6230-299-5653
                    Type J-2, with Water Activated Battery. Spec.
                    MIL-L-7396A(ASG) Applicationi: Life Rafts One Each
                    Item No. 4 Contract No. AF 30(635)-23525 Fulton Mfg.
                    Corp. Mfg/Contr., Wauseon, Ohio A-1 A8- 8/61
                    Reinspection Date.......... 8/64

Fig 3 There are loose crystals in the left end.
There is a small opening that shows up as a light
circle about where the rubber plug is located.
Light
                    Sea Rescue Marker Type J-2 MIL-L-7368A(ASC)
                    Specification Part No. N-45A Fulton Mfg. Corp. U.S.
                    ----------------------------------------------
                    Caution: Do Not Remove Plug for Inspection.


Related Marker Lights:

SDU-30
SDU-5/E
A-7 AAF Flashlight Floating Identification (on One Man Life Raft web page)

Table of Sonobuoys

Naval Consolidated Sonobuoys @FAS -


Function
Start
End
Links
AN/CRT-1
5 vacuum tubes single channel FM transmitter between 67 & 72 Mhz.
See Roswell Connection below where this was used with "disk microphones" on Project Mogul
CANADIAN LANCASTER - AN/CRT-1 SONOBUOY SYSTEM - drawing of aircraft equipment & buoy
Chapter 16 - SOFAR, HARBOR DEFENSE, AND OTHER SONAR SYSTEMS
Naval History - RADAR - MAD and CRT-1
CRT-1A: 67.7 to 71.7 MHz
CRT-1B: 62.9 to 66.9 MHz
Jun 1942


AN/CRT-4
RDRH
Mechanical rotation of hydrophone (Ref 6)  also see SSQ-53 DIFAR patents,
Feb 1943


AN/CRT-1A
6 channels
1944


AN/CRT-1B
separate web page (Differences to -1 and -1A? Let me know)



AN/SSQ-1
1951
Ref 6
upgraded CRT-4
15 kHz to 17 kHz rotating directional, Magnavox, B-size (6-7/8" dia x 5' long).  60 lbs.
The US bought the SSQ-20 (UK T-1946)  while the bugs were worked out of the SSQ-1.
SSQ-20
until
1954


SSQ-2
1956
Ref 6
Magnavox & Bell Labs.
Jerry Proc SSQ-2B - 4 blade "rotochute"

15 Feb 1955

1950 start of: LOFAR Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS, Wiki)
SSQ-20

1951


SSQ-2B
Julie explosive
1956


AN/SSQ-15
1961
Ref 6
Julie RO B-size, Tx 26 kHz to 38 kHz CW,



SSQ-23
1957
Ref 6
Julie  100 to 3000 Hz
1956
19 Nov 1964
SSQ-28
Jezebel-LOFAR 1960
19 Nov 1964
SSQ-36
BT  Moved to the Bathythermographs\SSQ-36 web page.
The BT sonobuoy is an expendable thermal gradient measurement sonobuoy that operates on one of three or one of 99 Radio Frequency (RF) channels. It consists of a thermistor (Wiki) temperature probe that descends through the bottom of the sonobuoy canister producing a continuous reading of temperature versus depth. The thermistor temperature probe will descend to 1000, 2000, or 2625 feet, depending upon the sonobuoy selected.

2017 Oct 11 - Navy places order for 166,500 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) sonobuoys - many types including -36, -53, -62, -101, 110, -125, Mk-84

2019 Dec 20 - 600 AN/SSQ-36/53/62 Sonobuoys to Denmark



SSQ-38
30 day omni-directional LOFAR
(replaced SSQ-28)
10 to 6,000 Hz
31 chan
1964
1 June 1961

SSQ-41
1965
Ref 6
SSQ53A/Ref24&25
single hydrophone, Rx: 10-20,000 Hz
replaced both SSQ-23 & SSQ-28
ARR-52 receiver (or ARR-75 with AN/UYS-1, i.e. modern displays)
Made in large numbers for the Navy.

1964


SSQ-47
late 1960s
Ref 6
(replaced SSQ-15 Julie explosive system) Tx (once every 10 seconds): 13 kHz to19 kHz
active ping omni directional range only
replaced by SSQ-50
1968


SSQ-48
replaced by SSQ-41B

26 Feb 1981

SSQ-50
1970s
Ref 6
CASS Command Activated Sonobuoy System, A-size, Pings only on UHF radio command. Tx: 6.5 to 9.5 kHz.
replace the SSQ-47
in 31 Second Generation Channel frequency plan.



SSQ-53
1965
Ref 6
31 RF Channels
10 Hz - 2.4 kHz
90 feet fixed depth

Sep
1967

SSQ-53A
1979 (YouTube)
90 or 1000' depth
1 or 8 hours
YouTube: FixitFrank: SS-Q53A Hydrophone Sonobuoy Teardown Part 1 - Jun 22, 2021, 2:14:40



SSQ-53B DIFAR
fitted with microprocessor controlled EFS capabilities,
with three depth selections [100, 400 or 1000 feet],
three operating time selections of 1, 3 or 8 hours,
99 vhf channels.

Operation

Before inserting the launch tube into the aircraft chute the sonobuoy is programmed for operational life, channel number and depth by using the SET button.  If done incorrectly pulling the TEST plug for a few seconds will allow reprogramming.  Power for this comes from a couple of coin cell batteries.  The correct programming can be confirmed by pressing and holding the VERIFY button for a couple of seconds.

When forced from the aircraft chute by means of compressed air the lid is blown off the launch tube deploying the parachute on the metal sonobuoy housing.  The plastic launch tube stays in the chute.

When the metal sonobuoy (Fig 53-8)  impacts the water is starts to sink and water activates the reserve battery.  As soon as the battery has power (probably within a few seconds) the squib retaining the large spring allows an arm to puncture a compressed gas bottle inflating the buoy/antenna (Fig 53-17).  At the same time, depending on the programmed depth one or both rods (Fig 53-21) are driven down to set the amount of cable that will unspool controlling depth of the sensor.  A very short time later the three main components of the sonobuoy are separated as the metal outer housing is blown clear and sinks.

With power the radio transmitter begins to send it's signal.

The duration may be determined by a simple electric timer that shuts off the transmitter after the programmed time, or . . .  there may be some provision to do more?

Although very old I believe this unit would still work.



Fig 53-1
SSQ-53B Sonobuoy in Launch Container next
                          to shipping tube
Launch Tube 5-3/8" diz x 39-5/8" long
dated 5/87 - it's 12/11 now so this is just under 25 years old.
The shipping container probably was left on the ground.
If you know the deployment sequence let me know what it is.
Fig 53-2
Top: Channel (01 to 99), Duration (1, 3 or 8 hrs), Depth (90, 400 or 1000) Ft., Verify
SSQ-53B
                          Sonobuoy Settings Channel, Duration Launch
                          Container
What was a transparent membrane has aged and is falling apart.  When intact would
provide a moisture barrier so the discussant could keep the inside dry.
Fig 53-3
Sonobuoy Launch Container LAU/126A
NOO 83-86-C-0007
.OT 036
Sonobuoy
                          Launch Container LAU/126A
Fig 53-4
LAU/126A Launch Container Cap
Sonobuoy Launch Container LAU/126A Cap
Fig 53-5
Cap Off by removing 4 black plastic clips
SSQ-53B Sonobuoy Launch Container
                          LAU/126A Cap removed
It's not clear how the sonobuoy was programmed and in what order loaded into the aircraft launch chute.
Fig 53-6
Inside the Launch Tube, marked:
Caution: - Disengage before launch
Caution: Spring Loaded

SSQ-53B
                          Sonobuoy Launch Container LAU/126A after Cap
                          removed
Fig 53-7
SSQ-53B Ready to launch (string holding spring snare)
The metal SSQ-53B housing is 4-3/4" O.D.
The label just to the right of the depth scale says:
WARNING Remove Plug Prior to Test
EFS Battery may be damaged if pins 1
and 2  are shorted or voltage is
applied across pins 1 and 2.

Voltage applied to pin 3 may cause high velocity ejection of top plate.
Reinstall plug before use.
SSQ-53B Sonobuoy Ready to Launch (string
                          holding spring snare)
Fig 53-8 With parachute deployed
SSQ-53B
                          with parachute out of body
The gray plastic cap was preyed off instead of submerging in water and dissolving the two metal links?

Fig 53-9
There are three functional parts.  The right is the antenna-buoy cover and receiver/transmitter,
the center is cable spools and the bottom (left) is the sensor.
SSQ-53B
                          three major assemblies
Fig 53-10
Three Major Components:
Left: Radio, Antenna, Battery
Center: cable
Right: Sensor

SSQ-53B
                          Major Components: 10 Radio, Antenna, Battery,
                          2) cable, 3) Sensor
Fig 53-11
Sensor, marked:
Sparton Corporation
120-0127-002
Clock Number: 0358     Date 06/03/87
{bar code]
SIN: -67.1 db    COS: -68.4 db      OMNI: -72.1 db
the latter three parameters are related to the DIFAR aspect of the sensor.
The black cylinder hanging out the bottom is probably the omni hydrophone.
SSQ-53B
                          Sonobuoy Sensor label
Note:  There's a single green/white wire (cable) going to/coming from the sensor. I expect it's a small coax cable, but it remains to be seen.
Fig 53-12  Radio Buoy
SQQ-53B Sonobuoy Radio buoy top
                          component
Fig 53-13
With cap pulled off and buoy opened, but not inflated.
There appears to be small wire antenna with a resistor at the top.
SSQ-53B
                          w/buoy pulled out by not inflated
Fig 53-14  Test Socket & Memory Battery
Test Socket cap held by O-Ring, need big pliers to pull/twist it out.
There was a jumper plug  in the socket, more later.
SSQ-53B Test Socket & Memory Battery
Memory Battery and PCBs
There's a big spring that can puncture what's probably a good size CO2 cylinder in order to inflate the buoy/antenna.  There's what looks like a fusible link holding the spring in tension that could trigger the gas.

Also at the bottom of the PCB chamber there are a couple of lever arms that have a resistor wrapped around their ends.  If the resistor was exploded (over powered) then it would release these arms to do something (maybe control the depth through the cable spools?

The two coin cells are in the white plastic holder.  They provide about 6 Volts and are still good.

On the left board there are three red wires (Battery +), a bare stub where I wiggled off the battery + wire, and a yellow wire (to socket pin 3).  The bare wire at the top (just under the coin cells) that's soldered to a lug on the central metal plate is ground (same as the cast metal frame where the battery- wire connects.).
Fig 53-16
SSQ-53B Memory Battery & RF PCBs

Battery

Fig 53-17 Main Battery held to cylinder with double sided foam tape.
1 lb 11 oz. 4-1/4" hi x 3-1/8" w x 2-9/16" d (11 x 8 x 6 cm)
There is a hole on two sides just under the top cover to allow water to enter.
SSQ-53B Main Battery (dead)
This is a water activated reserve battery. 1986 Mfg date.
Fig 53-18
SSQ-53B Reserve water activated battery
                        Water Hole
In the other photos you can see green deposits on the inside of the radio/buoy black plastic.  I think that's because this reserve battery contains Copper in a form that allows it to escape.  This may be a limiting factor for the shelf life.  The Copper deposits are probably the result of the failure of the moisture proof membrane that covers the programming push button switches.   Once the moisture in the air gets to the reserve battery it's going to become a carrier for the copper and also will lower the battery capacity.

Idea:  Rather than depend on the moisture proof membrane (and Desiccant (Wiki)) to keep the reserve battery fresh, it should be in a compartment that's sealed until the metal housing is separated from the launch tube..
2021 July 29 -  That idea will not work.  The battery must allow sea water to enter the instant the sonobuoy is in the ocean.  It will sink below the surface for some distance as the battery activates then when it does activate it will trigger the float.  A better idea might be to use peel off plastic like is used on Zinc-Air batteries to keep them fresh.  Maybe a way can be found so that happens when the parachute opens?

The two coin cells are still good condition after almost 25 years since this was manufactured.  

4262069 Lead chloride battery plate, John L. Devitt, Douglas E. Johnson, Robert S. Willard, Sparton Corporation, Apr 14, 1981 -
Cites:
3468710 Sea water battery, Jerome Goodman, Philip I Krasnow, Nuclear Research Associates, Sep 23, 1969 -
Cites:
2692215 Alkaline dry cell, Ruben Samuel, Oct 19, 1954 -
3005864 Sea water battery, Duncan T Sharpe, Bell Telephone Lab, Filed: Mar 29 (16 year delay), 1945, Pub: Oct 24, 1961 - maybe the Mk 18 torpedo (Wiki)
Fig 53-19  High Pressure Gas bottle to inflate buoy/antenna
SSQ-53B Sonobuoy buoy/antenna high
                          pressure gas inflation components
There are three PCBs:
Blue: modulator & RF exciter
Green:  I/O panel
Tan: RF Power Amp
Fig 53-20 Test Socket Message
SSQ-53B Test Socket Message
Socket Pin
Ohms
to Gnd
Ohms
to Bat+

Plug
1
1M8
1M8
1-7
2
876k
1M4

3Note1
>1M
0.2
3-4
4
0.2
405k
3-4
5
1M
1M

6
1M 1M

7
0.1
405k
1-7
Note 1: pin 3 is connected to one side of the squib that can cut the lanyard holding
the arm that will puncture the high pressure gas for deploying the buoy/antenna.

Pins 7 & 4 are connected to the ground bulkhead (0.0 Ohms).
Pin 3 is connected to the red battery wire (0.0 Ohms)

The jumper plug connects:
1 to 7
3 to 4

With the jumper plug removed:
Red test lead to red battery wire (black lead to ground) = 1M00 Ohms
Black test lead to red battery wire (red lead to ground) = 401k Ohms

Pin 1 is connected to the negative (black wire) leading from the two stacked coin cells).
The jumper plug connects pin 1 to pin 7.  Pin 7 is connected to the micro controller.  So these two pins relate to zeroing the programming.

If you have information on how the test socket is used please let me know.
Fig 53-32 Test Socket Schematic
See Fig 55-29 & Fig 53-31 for photo of Fuse 1 (LE  1A)
SSQ-53B Test Scoket Schematic diagram
A few of possible reasons for placing a fuse directly across the reserve battery.  One or more of them might be the reason. For Now I'll just remove the fuse.
1) Shorting the main power supply protects the squibs from being fired by static
    or electromagnetic fields (like high power transmitters on board ships).
2) The reserve battery may activate better with a heavily loaded.  Note:  The
     BA-4386 Magnesium battery needs to see a heavy load in order to fully activate.
3) When the fuse blows the battery is delivering at least 1 amp and that surge current
     would next go to blowing the squibs.  This might be more reliable than ramping up
     the squib voltage.

Pins 5 & 6 each connect to one of the pins on the micro controller.  The Test plug (cable) probably has a jumper between pins 1 & 7 to connect the EFS (coin cell) battery thus powering the micro controller, and when it's powered up the test socket pins 5 & 6 can be used.  But for what?  Data In/Out, firmware programming, verification check sum, something to do with the hard wired option jumper to the upper right of the LCD housing? let me know.
 Fig 53-21 Buttons (now working) maybe because of cycling the plug.
SSQ-53B EFS labels
Pressing and holding Verify for a couple of seconds will show the function settings.
To change the settings the plug must be removed for a few seconds.
Pressing SET starts the channel number counting 0 to 9 to 0.
Pressing SET fixes the tens digit and the units start counting pressing set fixes the channel number and the life bars start cycling.  Pressing SET sets the life and then the depth bars start cycling, pressing SET fixes the depth.  Now pressing Verify for a few seconds will display the function settings.

They were set for: 1 hr, chan 63 & 1000'
Now set for 3 hrs, chan 54 and 400'.
Fig 53-22 EFS LCD (plug shown installed)
SSQ-53B EFS LCD Verify
Fig 53-23 Depth Selection
The two levers are either in the position shown or they are pushed toward the center
to select how much cable is deployed.  The selection is made by the two blue plastic
actuators using a push (or pull) of the rod with the spring.  Note this rod is smooth and would not support a rotary motion.  Also the two levers in the bottom of the radio compartment work in an up or down fashion, not in a rotary fashion.  See Fig 53-9 and
a close up from it Fig 53-22 below..
SSQ-53B Depth Selection
Fig 53-24 Close up photo of depth selection blue plastic parts.
SSQ-53B depth selection blue plastic
                          parts
Fig 53-25 Cutting Squib Wires
Three red wires have been cut deactivating the three squibs so DC power can be applied.
SSQ-53B Cutting Squib Wires to allow
                          power up
Test Socket Resistance readings after cutting the wires:
Pin
Ohm
to Gnd
Ohms
to Bat +

Plug
1
1M9
OL
1-7
2
860K
OL

3
>1M
1.9 3-4
4
0.6
>1M 3-4
5
1M0
1M3

6
1M0 1M6
7
0.5
1.9 1-7
Gnd to Batt+ (w/0 Plug) = 1M0
Gnd to Batt+ (w Plug) =  0.7
There is still a dead short across the battery terminals!

pin3 is yellow wire to Battery + terminal (and red wires)
pin 4 is the metal frame (battery -) the black battery wire with the internal tooth lug.
This is confusing.
The hi pres gas squib is 36.2 Ohms.
One of the depth squibs is 18.5 Ohms (red to violet) not to ground.
The other depth squib is 18.3 Ohms (red to blue) not to ground.
These may be 1/8 Watt 18 Ohm resistors. Rated power would be at 1.5 Volts, 10X power at 4.7V, 100X power at 15 Volts, so if the battery is about 15 volts the resistors would fail mechanically.

Note the plug must be installed for the programming to work, so operation without the plug is not an option.   The plug has a jumper between pins 3 and 4 that is part of the path shorting the battery + and - terminals.

The coax feeding the antenna reads 42.7 Ohms.(resistor is Yel-Org-Blk-Red)
Fig 53-26 Green Cable
10K0 Ohms either polarity.
This joint is located on the black plastic bottom plate of the Transmitter section.
White to White, Green to Green.
See: Fig 53-10 and Fig 53-12.
SSQ-53 Long Green 2-Conductor Cable
How to take apart the transmitter?  It may be possible to push everything out the bottom, but that would break the two push button switches.  Probably the best way is to saw from top to bottom at two places 180 degrees apart.
Fig 53-27
The switch buttons are mechanical working through a rubber boot and can be pulled
out of the plastic housing.
SSQ-53B
                          Removing Programming Switches
After letting the top sit overnight after applying some Kroil to the joint between the plastic housing and the metal plate with O-ring seal the assembly pressed out the bottom easily.  It was necessary to un-solder the antenna cable and the green wire to isolate the top section.
Fig 53-28 RF Amplifier
Tan PCB from top section
The antenna was connected at the top of this board where the notch is.
Gnd to the left and center to the right of the notch.
This is probably the Tx power amplifier and antenna matching/filtering board.
SSQ-53B Top Section Tan PCB
Fig 53-29  Command and Control Board
Green PCB from top section.
This is the digital board.
I doubt the micro controller is doing anything with the sensor data, so it's
probably running at a very slow clock frequency to conserve power.
So there's no need for a crystal for it.
SSQ-53B Top Section Green PCB
There are three 2N6724 2 Watt NPN Darlington transistors just to the left of the push buttons used for firing the three squibs.  The collectors go to the squibs and all three emitters are connected to the bulkhead ground plate.
Top: RF Amp board depth squib
Center: Synth board depth squib
Bottom: CO2

Maybe the transistor that blows the antenna squib is on the RF amp board? or maybe it's just the battery?

Above the upper right corner of the black plastic LCD housing there is a row of 6 holes and a jumper is installed in the right most of these.  
What option is this selecting?  Let me know.
Fig 53-30  Synthesizer and Modulator Board
Blue PCB from top section.
This board interfaces with the sensor package.
The crystal at the lower left is marked:
10.2985 MHz.  This is a non standard value, see my Crystals web page.
Maybe related to the DIFAR spectrum.
This board seems to be mostly analog in nature.
SSQ-53B Top Section Blue PCB
On the bulkhead plate at the bottom there are the two depth programming levers.
As shown the squibs (resistors) are intact and the lever is held in the down position.
The two rods are spring loaded and trying to lift up.  When the squibs are broken
the depth programming rods are forced up by their spring.

At the bottom right the green/white sensor cable can bee seen coming through a hole
and its connection to two pads.

All three squibs measure 500K Ohms to Bat+ and open to Ground.  So they are not causing the dead battery short.

The date codes on the ICs are 1984, 1985 & 1987.
6 Jan 2012 - New Idea about the direct battery short.
The short may be part of a Safe And Arm system that would prevent the buoy
from becoming active prior to an actual launch.  This may be a common system
used not only on sonobuoys but also things like countermeasures equipment like
flares and chaff dispensers.

If that's the case then something about the pneumatic launch would disable the short.
Fig 53-31  Fuse on digital PCB
This appears to be the cause of the dead short across the reserve battery terminals.
SSQ-53B
                          1 Amp Fuse Across (shorting) Reserve Battery
                          Terminals
Power Up (with sensor disconnected, antenna attached)
For about 15 seconds the current is in the 30 ma range then jumps up to150 to 200 ma when the transmitter turns on.
After battery power the Verify button does not work.
The battery voltage appears on the green/white cable.
On reconnecting the green cable between the floating buoy and the sensor.
Buoy
The resistance between the two wires and ground is: left: 1M and right 10k.
The resistance between the two wires and Batt+  is: left: 0.2  and right  1M
Sensor
The resistance between either wire and the sensor metal is an open circuit.
So as of 12 Jan 2012 it's still not clear how to be sure the polarity is correct to reconnect the sensor.
Thanks to Ugo in Italy there are two conductors in the cable, one supplies power to the sensor package (which has input filter caps) and the other is the audio signal to be modulated onto the transmitter.  Seawater forms a ground return between the floating transmitter and the sensor.  This is confirmed by the book The Ears of Air ASW. pg 241 (Ref 2)


1984

SSQ-53D Dwarf "G" size version of the B
1991


SSQ-53D DIFAR only sensor, 90, 400 or 1000 feet, no CFS
-53D(2)
5 Hz - 2.4 kHz
1/2, 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours
-53D(3)
sea state 6
----------------
Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-53D DIFAR sonobuoy incorporates the Electronic Function Select (EFS) capability which provides the operator with the capability of electronically selecting one of the available 99 RF channels, sonobuoy life of one-half, one, two, four, or eight hours, and hydrophone depth of 90, 400, or 1000 feet. The AN/SSQ-53D also has improved suspension, wider sonic response curve, and electronic upgrades compared to previous DIFAR sonobuoys.
 



2003


SSQ-53E Digital version
Additional hydrophone @ 45' for CSO
CFS
100, 200, 400 or 1000 feet
AGC
91.44 cm long
-----------------------
Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-53E DIFAR sonobuoy incorporates Command Function Select (CFS). Through CFS, a suitably equipped ASW aircraft can transmit Ultra High Frequency (UHF) radio commands to the sonobuoy. These commands select Very High Frequency (VHF) operation (on/off), hydrophone reception (Constant Shallow Omni (CSO)/Normal, Automatic Gain Control (AGC) operation (on/off), and change RF channel frequency. The CSO is an omnidirectional hydrophone positioned at a depth setting of 45 feet. It is less sensitive than the normal DIFAR hydrophone, but is useful against an evasive submarine. AGC selection provides the operator additional flexibility when operating in a noisy environment. The ability to select VHF operation and change RF channels enhances operations in the littoral environment. Also, the AN/SSQ-53E includes an additional 200 feet EFS depth setting.



SSQ-53F
DIFAR, CSO
made by combining the
305 cm long
SSQ-53E & SSQ-57
NSN 5845-01-475-9870
adds CO hydrophone with directional units (replaces SSQ-57)
CFS Rx - single channel UHF
Tx - 96 selectable frequencies (136 - 173.5 MHz), 1W
90, 200, 400, 1000 Ft.
"In order to process the DIFAR 53F, a demodulator strips the NEMA GPS stream off a 30 kHz carrier on each audio channels before transmitting it through a 232 serial interface to the STB (SDR System Test Bed), which has a component that reads this serial stream and parses the associated NEMA GPS messages for use by the system." TM2011-140_i.pdf
2000


SSQ-57A
1970s
Ref 6
Calibrated-LOFAR
-57 Rx: 10 to 10,000 Hz, -57A Rx: 10 to 20,000 Hz.
See separate web page
1972


SSQ-57B
Ref 32: The LOFAR sonobuoy is an expendable, omnidirectional passive sonar unit. It consists of an omnidirectional hydrophone that descends through the bottom of the sonobuoy canister to a pre-selected depth. The LOFAR operates from one of 31 RF channels preset during manufacturing. There is a selectable operating life of one, three, or eight hours and selectable operating depth of 90 or 400 feet.


SSQ-62
late 1970s
Ref 6
DICASS Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System
FM sweeps (FM-CW allows determining range (Wiki)
a 4-hour life and 50 seconds of ping time, provides an instant range and bearing to the contact for each command and active ping.
99 channel Third generation frequency plan.
1976


SSQ-62B Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-62B DICASS may be command activated to change depth, to activate sonar transmissions and to scuttle the sonobuoy. The AN/SSQ-62B DICASS operates on one of four preset sonar channels and one of 31 preset RF channels. These channels are preset by the manufacturer and cannot be changed. Upon deployment, the AN/SSQ-62B DICASS will initially deploy to a depth of 90 feet. Upon receipt of a command signal, the transducer will deploy to a depth of 400 or 1500 feet.


SSQ-62C
Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-62C DICASS also operates on one of 86 preset sonar channels. The channels are preset prior to flight to one of 86 preset RF channels that correspond with the preset sonar channel. Upon deployment, the AN/SSQ-62C DICASS will initially deploy to a depth of 90 feet. Upon receipt of a command signal, the transducer will deploy to a depth of 400 feet or 1500/2500 feet. The 1500 or 2500 foot depth option must be selected through the EFS during preflight. 1993


SSQ-62D Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-62D DICASS has been improved with the replacement of the lithium chemistry battery with a thermal battery. Additionally, the sonobuoy includes the EFS option of selectable depth families. During preflight, either a shallow or deep family of depth option shall be selected. If the shallow family is selected, depth settings of 50, 150, or 300 feet are available. If the deep family is selected, depth settings of 90, 400, and 1500 are available. These depth options provide sufficient flexibility for both littoral and open ocean ASW operations.


SSQ-62E
Command Function Select
Electronic Function Select
96 chan 136.000 - 173.500 MHz
CW Out: 6.5, 7.5, 8.5 or 9.5 kHz
--------------------------
Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-62E DICASS includes the following improvements and modifications to the AN/SSQ-62D DICASS design. It incorporates CFS, allowing a suitably equipped ASW aircraft to transmit UHF radio commands to the sonobuoy. These commands select VHF operation (on/off), change RF channel frequency and associated sonar channel frequency, change sonar frequency independently, and change depth setting. These features all provide enhancements for both deep water and littoral ASW environments. Additionally, the AN/SSQ-62E DICASS will include all four available sonar channel frequencies into a single sonobuoy which provides significant logistics savings.


Sonobuoy Tech Systems
SSQ-77
1970s
Ref 6
VLAD


SSQ-77A
1981
Ref 6
VLAD (Vertical Line Array DIFAR) 1981


SSQ-77B " more hydrophones, 2 depths, 2 beams
Ref 32: The VLAD sonobuoy is an expendable, omnidirectional passive sonar unit. The VLAD uses a multi-element omnidirectional hydrophone array and a beamforming filter assembly to enhance acoustic sensitivity. The VLAD has a selectable configuration incorporated into the EFS. This allows the operator to select either bottom bounce or convergence zone sound reception. The EFS will also allow selection of one of 99 RF channels, two operating depths of 500 and 1000 feet, and selectable life settings of one, four, or eight hours. In all other respects, the VLAD is comparable to the DIFAR.
1989


SSQ-77C
" adds RF command function selection


SSQ-86
DLC
Ref 32: The DLC sonobuoy is an expendable, acoustic communication device designed to transmit a preprogrammed message to a submerged submarine. It consists of an omnidirectional acoustic transducer that descends through the bottom of the sonobuoy canister to a shallow transmission depth of 75 feet. After completing shallow depth transmissions, the transducer automatically descends to the deep transmission depth of 350 feet. The messages are encoded through the EFS prior to launch. The acoustic transmission frequencies are classified. The message transmission includes an address group, an addressee group, and two word groups. The sonobuoy does not have an RF transmitter.



SSQ-101
early 1990s
Ref 6
Ref 49
ADAR Advanced Deployable Acoustic Receiver SSQ-101 NSN: 5845-01-453-8699
Ref 32: The ADAR sonobuoy is an expendable unit capable of receiving UHF downlink commands and sending real-time beamformed acoustic data via a VHF digital uplink to the monitoring unit. The ADAR will be a free-floating acoustic data receiver that will operate in conjunction with an acoustic source. The buoy will also scuttle automatically upon detection of a low voltage state or completion of its six hour life.
FY97


SSQ-101B
Q101B.pdf
NSN: 5845-01-629-8534



SSQ-110 Ref 32: The AN/SSQ-110 EER sonobuoy operates on one of 31 selectable RF channels and is composed of two sections. The upper section is called the control buoy and is similar to the upper electronics package of the AN/SSQ-62 DICASS sonobuoy. The lower section consists of two explosive payloads of Class A explosive weighing 4.2 pounds each. The arming and firing mechanism is hydrostatically armed and detonated.


SSQ-110A
EER
MIL-S-29593, 30 July 1997
Ref 32: The EER sonobuoy is an expendable sonobuoy that is a commandable, air-dropped, high source level acoustic source.

The SSQ-110A EER includes the following improvements and modifications to the AN/SSQ-110 EER design. The AN/SSQ-110A EER includes the EFS feature. EFS allows the selection of one of 99 RF channels. Additionally, the sonobuoy adds a classified depth setting for a total number of two depth settings. Upon deployment, the AN/SSQ-110A EER can be sent to its deeper depth setting via UHF radio commands.

30 July 1997

SSQ-120
(Wiki) Transportable Radio Direction-Finding system, ...has HF, VHF, and UHF antennas and direction-finding logic.  FBOdaily March 22, 1999



SSQ-125
advanced EER ADLFP sound source
used with: ADAR sonobuoys like SSQ-53F, SSQ-77C and SSQ-101



SSQ-536
BT


SSQ-801
BARRA


SSQ-906
LOFAR Omni



SSQ-926
ALFEA, GPS
5452262 Radio telemetry buoy for long-range communication, James D. Hagerty, Navy, 1995-09-19, - 3 to 6 MHz Rx/Tx, GPS Rx, 162 to 173 Tx.




SSQ-937
BT


SSQ-954
DIFAR


SSQ-955
HIDAR


SSQ-963D
CAMBS

Janes
SSQ-981
BARRA



SUS: Signal Underwater Sound (see SUS Mk 84 web page)

Sonobuoy Aircraft Systems

Receivers

R-2/ARR-3 see the CRT-1 Sonobuoy page.
CIA-46186 (RBF-1)

ARR-52 sonobuoy Aircraft Receiver

The ARR-52 was a 16 channel receiver and the ARR-52A is a 32 channel receiver.  (See: RxControl: ARR52A)

R-1170/ARR-52A

The internal modules have markings like:

Module 1
p/o R1170/ARR-52A 16 Tuning caps for crystal oscillators
Module 2
R-962 A/ARR-52

Module3 R-962 A/ARR-52
Module4 R-962 A/ARR-52
Module5 R-962 A/ARR-52
This suggests the ARR-52 (no letter) was made up of modules which were all marked R-962 A/ARR-52.
The R-962/ARR-52 has NSN: 5845-00-835-6218 and is 11.687x7.437x2.187", runs on 18 VDC, 16 channels (?) between 162.0 - 174.0, F9
The R-1170/ARR-52A has NSN 5845-00-999-6284 (4 March 1966)
Fig 1 Front Test Points: AGC, Disc & AFC.
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 2 Back antenna and system connectors.
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 3 Inside Top View
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 4 Inside Bottom View
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 5 Module 1 has 16 crystals on each side (32 total)
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 6 Module 2 Function???? (blank back side)
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 7 Module 3 Guess 5 MHz second IF (blank back side)
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 8 Module 4 Guess 26 MHz first IF
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 9 Module 4 Guess 26 MHz first IF
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 10 Module 5 Guess power supply & audio amp
DE-9P-C7  on DB-15 connector
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 11 Module 5 Guess power supply & audio amp
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 12 Chassis with 26 Mhz filter between Module 1 and Module 4.
5 MHz filter between Module 4 (cap to Module 1) and Module 3.
R-1170/ARR-52A
Fig 13 Module
R-1170/ARR-52A


CQ magazine October 1974, Conversion to 2 meters?
Some info from Radio Nerds:

ARR-52,A	R-962/1170 Sonobuoy Receiver  162.5-173.5 MC  AM-FM-Video 
 AM-2375,76/	ARR-52 RF Amps.
 ARM-53		ARR-52 Test Set
 AT-933/	ARR-52 Antenna (2 used)
 C-3109,10*/	R-962/ Control Boxes, 4 & 2 Signal Channels, 16 RF Channels
 C-4505,06*/	R-1170/ Control Boxes, 4 & 2 Signal Channels, 31 RF Channels NSN: 5845-00-999-6285
 C-4506         NSN: 5845-00-999-6286
MT-2258/ ARR-52 4-Receiver Rack Case MT-2259/ ARR-52 Shockmount for MT-2258/ PP-2479/ ARR-52 PS 115 VAC & 28 VDC in, -6, +18, +135 VDC out RD-53/ARH ARR-52 Bathythermograph Recorder U/W AM-1569/ARR-26 & IP-347/ SB-1084,85/ Signal Level Meters, 4 & 2 Channels

ARR-52 Patents

Channel select rotary solenoid - about 1-18" diameter.
2496880 Magnetically operated device, George H Leland, 1950-02-07, - first application was for air dropped bomb fuzes - "Ledex" is the brand name, Channel select rotary solenoid
2501950 Commutating switch mechanism, George H Leland, 1950-03-28, - Channel select rotary solenoid
2790153 Polarized electrical plug and socket connector having a plurality of contacts, Samuel L Arson, Cannon Electric Co, 1957-04-23- the original DB connector series? the prior patents used a rectangular array of contacts and something other than the contacts to prevent installing 180 degrees from the correct orientation, such as male and female threads on the screws.

General Sonobuoy Receiver Patents

3778728 Phaselocked-fm detector apparatus, R Nupp, EDMAC ASS, 1973-12-11, -
3845402 Sonobuoy receiver system, floating coupler, R Nupp, EDMAC ASS, 1974-10-29, -

ARR-75

Other Sonobuoy Aircraft Systems

An Aircraft Control Panel for ASA-20 Julie explosive echo ranging device & AQA-1 Sonobuoy Indicator/Tracker,
YouTube: Sonobuoy Indicator Group AN/AQA-1 Operation ~ 1961 US Navy; Lockheed P-2 Neptune (17:34) - works with SSQ-15 Range-only (RO) Echo-ranging, SSQ-20 Directional Listening (DL) or SSQ-2B Non-directional Listening (eXplosive echo Ranging: XR) sonobuoys.

Aircraft Sonobuoy Control
                  Panel ASA-20 Control
Drift - Compute - Reset



PDI (Pulse Doppler Indicator): BDHI (Bearing Distance Heading Indicator): Marker 1 to 6, GTP: Marker 1 to 6  Insert




ASA-20 or AQA-1                                                        ASA-20 or AQA-1
                                                  A-B: 1 to 6
Computer
Ellipse
                   A: Off to 6                   Data Release                B: Off to 6


ASA-31 Julie Control Panel
ASA-31
                  Julie Sonobuoy Control Panel
Julie Control

ASA-20 Sonobuoy Recorder "Jezebel".

The AQA-5 is a 4 channel paper chart recorder.
Youtube video: AN/AQA-5 Acoustic Charts Recorder 1:16 - monitors 4 sonobuoys in parallel
P-3 Orion Aircraft - Walk Around -

BDHI: Bearing Distance Heading Indicator
PDI: Pulse Doppler Illuminator
3582871 Ellipictal Computer System, Morris Snyder (Navy), Jun 1, 1971, 367/3; 367/107; 701/300; 708/801 - determines sub position using sonobuoys
AN/ARR-502 Multichannel Sonobuoy Receiver (data sheet, data sheet)

AQA-7(V)1/2 Directional Acoustic-Frequency Analysis and Recording System (DIFAR)

ASQ-114 digital computer has a memory loaded with a large number of sound profiles of submarines and radar- and radio signals for comparing ESM measurements

Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) replaced the Low Light Level TeleVision system (LLLTV)

ASR-3 Sonobuoy Reference System (SRS) - used multiple antennas to determine bearing to sonobuoy
Digital magnetic Tape System (DMTS) -

Integrated Acoustic Communication System (IACS) - sub coms

Litton LTN-72 navigation system used with the INS and Doppler navigation systems

ALR-66 (Wiki) ESM systems (Wiki) using the Adaptive Controlled Phased Array System (ACPA) (ESM is closely related to RWR)
Deinterleaver Technology for Future ESM systems, Dec 1992 NSWC - each pulse received from a single emitter can be agile in frequency, pulse width, pulse amplitude, pulse repetition interval, but not direction.  So using the Pulse Descriptor Word from the ESM sensor a future deinterleaver can sort out each emitter and differentiate between friendly and hostile emitters.  ESM systems mentioned:
Racal SADIE
IBM Associative Comparator
Anaren ESM Processor
ALQ-32 Inner Processor

Instantaneous Frequency Measurement (IFM) receivers are part of the ESM sensor.  But this type of receiver can have problems with two signals at the same time or with a CW signal anywhere in it's frequency range. The proposed configuration is to use narrow band receivers (many channels) and for each channel two paths, one for angle of arrival and the other for characterization of the received signal.

Bathythermograph moved to Bathythermographs

Outdoor Intrusion Detectors based on Sonobuoy Technology

15 April 2023: The AN/TSQ-108(*) Radar Sonar Surveillance Center "van's" are basically a P-3 Orion without wings or torpedoes..( FAS, USNI)
SRQ-17 (Wiki, Ref 48)

Link between Vietnam Intrusion Detectors and Navy

6 Sep 2019 Discovered the next 3 patents while looking for information on the RR-97/AL chaff brick.  The inventors of Navy Sonobuoy containers also invented seismic and acoustic intrusion detectors.  This is the link that was obvious 7 years ago in 2012, but now is confirmed.

3891865 Intrusion detector, Salvatore R Picard,
                  Robert F Starry, US Navy, 1975-06-24
3891865 Intrusion detector, Salvatore R Picard, Robert F Starry, US Navy, 1975-06-24,  327/37; 340/539.1; 340/522; 340/566; 340/539.14 - "A low-current detection device responsive to both audio and seismic input signals received over predetermined periods of time at preselected amplitude levels."

Seismic & Audio inputs. Optional night operation.  3 tones (United Aircraft H2102 tone generator) in the range of 19 kHz to 32 kHz depending on code select plug.

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3995223 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George
                  A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard,
                  Robert F. Starry, US Navy, Priority: 1970-02-19, Pub:
                  1976-11-3
3995223 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard, Robert F. Starry, US Navy, Priority: 1970-02-19, Pub: 1976-11-3, 327/25; 367/93; 181/122 - "an acoustic sensor, a seismic sensor and an acoustic signal transmitter." Inventors are with Navy and have sonobuoy related patents.

The illustrations in this patent are almost identical to patent 5054006 below.

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5054006 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George
                  A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard,
                  Robert F. Starry, US Navy, App: 1970-02-19
5054006 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard, Robert F. Starry, US Navy, App: 1970-02-19 (21 Year Delay) Pub: 1991-10-01, 367/136 -

The illustrations in this patent are almost identical to patent 3995223 above.

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Construction

Since the sonobuoy has a cylindrical ( 4-4/7" O.D.) shape it makes sense to have the electronics in the form of cylindrical modules that can be stacked end to end. These modules are about 2-3/4" O.D. and have a circular connector around the outer edge.  For use as an outdoor intrusion detector the hydrophone is replaced with a geophone (Wiki), or other sensor like used to listen for the RF generated from spark ignition engines.

April 2023:  After getting an ADSID  I not longer think the GSQ-160 (and others) use of the TCnnn cylindrical modules came from or are related to sonobuoys.  This is because these modules are very heavy and sonobuoys require light weight construction both because of the need to maximize the number of sonobuoys that can be carried on a plane and to allow a small flotation device to keep the electronics package on the surface.

1st Generation

I think this outdoor intrusion sensor was made by modifying a sonobuoy.  The Automatic Radio Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY) may be this unit or something very similar.
See Popular Mechanics March 1976 "War watch in the Sinai" references the "electronic battlefield" aka the "McNamara Line" (Wiki).   Mentions sensors:
See the web page:  http://1stwave553rdreconwing.com/AboutUs.html
and/or search on keywords: John T. Correll, Igloo White (Wiki), the McNamara Line (Wiki),
AF Magazine Nov 2004 -
Igloo White the quotes below are from this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igloo_White#Sensors_and_Weapons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_Line
The barrier would consist of a 20,000 air dropped listening devices combined with 240,000,000 Gravel mine and 300,000,000 Button mines and 19,200 Sadeye cluster bombs at a cost of around one billion dollars a year, not including 1.6 billion dollars for research and development, and the construction of a 600 million dollar command center in Thailand.

Spikebuoy - seismic sensor

"The Spikebuoy (66 inches long, 40 pounds) planted itself in the ground like a lawn dart.  Only the antenna, which looked like the stalks of weeds, was left showing above ground."
3995223 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard, Robert F. Starry, Secretary Of The Navy, Nov 30, 1976 (7 year delay), 327/25, 181/122, 367/93 -
5054006 Seismic-acoustic detection device, George A. Gimber, Edward J. Cotilla, Salvatore R. Picard, Robert F. Starry, Secretary Of The Navy, Oct 1, 1991 (21 year delay), 367/136 - 

ADSID

(Air-Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector) sensed earth motion to detect people and vehicles.  It resembled the Spikebuoy, except it was smaller and lighter (31 inches long, 25 pounds). It was the most widely used sensor in the program.

Acoubuoy - microphone

"The Acoubuoy (36 inches long, 26 pounds) floated down by camouflaged parachute and caught in the trees, where it hung to listen."

Arfbuoy - repeater

Photos courtesy of Dennis Starks

ARFBUOY Acoubuoy

This is an 18 pound steel cylinder 4-3/4"x22".
It's designed to be air dropped  with a drag chute and get hung up in the trees.  There is a central tape whip and four ground plane tape whips each 17" long.
which is a quarter wave at about 190 MHz.
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Automatic Radio Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY)
The central gold colored thing is the microphone.  Note all the holes in the front to let sound in and protect the microphone from tree limbs.

Automatic Radio
                  Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY)

Automatic Radio
                  Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY)

Automatic Radio
                  Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY)
Battery
Automatic Radio
                  Frequency Buoy (ARFBUOY) Battery

This is a battery type I don't recognize.  If you know about it please let me know what it is.
Sound Observer (Locator) Remote Microphone.
It's identical to the mike in the Acoubuoy.
Remote Sound
                  Obseerver (loation) Microphone
This is the same mike that's in the photo at left with
the question mark.  The 5 socket connector is marked:
7004 Deutsh
DBA36-10-5SN-10-6032
The contacts are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 (but no 5).

There's a knurled and slotted screw head on the back that can be unscrewed about 1 turn, maybe to normalizing the pressure inside to match atmospheric.
See RT-1185 for a similar application.
Maybe one of the applications was to locate enemy small arms or big guns?

3704764 Air deliverable seismic system, Harold B Henderson, Texas Instruments Inc, Filed: 1969-12-23, Pub: 1972-12-05 - a motor rotates a cylinder until a pendulum is plumb, then feet extend and the antenna is raised.  Note TI and Vietnam time frame.  What is this? Let me know.  Has the feel of  "Metalhead" the dog robot in Black Mirror (YouTube).
Does not call other patents but is cited by:
5434828 Stabilizer for geophone, Roger M. Logan, Ion Geophysical Corp, 1995-07-18 - adds bumps so it will not roll around when on the bottom under water.
6531965 Modular open system architecture for unattended ground sensors, Stephen G. Kaiser, Mark D. Hischke, Shannon Mary Nelson, Stuart J. Collar, Dana Lynn Bourbonnais, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp, 2003-03-11 - the sensor modules look like those on the GSQ-154 & GSQ0160. "unattended ground sensor" (Wiki) mentioned many times.
History of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory - page with mention of UGS.
6823262 Method for conducting seismic surveys utilizing an aircraft deployed seismic source, Phillip Andrew Bahorich, Michael Stephen Bahorich, Apache Corp, 2004-11-23 - plane drops iron bomb w/o explosives, just it's weight hitting the ground makes the signal.
6831699 Deployable monitoring device having self-righting housing and associated method, Yu-Wen Chang, William Grainger, Michael Johnson, William Traeger, Pablo De Los Rios, William Osterholm, Chang Ind Inc, 2004-12-14  - egg shaped device with TV camera.
20060010998 Autonomous reconnaissance sonde, and method for deployment thereof, Roke Manor Research Ltd, 2008-05-20 - based on TV camera in Clay pigeon (Wiki).
WO2016139503 - sounds like a seismic sensor glues itself to the ground

Mines for Noise

The Turd, Gravel Mines (Wiki), and the BLU-43 Dragontooth (Wiki) were used as part of Operation Igloo White (Wiki).
More about land mines at Blasting Machines/M21 Training Land Mine -

USQ-42 Receiver

R-1617A/USQ-46 Receiver

R-1617A/USQ-46
                    Receiver
R-1617A/USQ-46
                    Receiver

Description

Operation

When powered there is no indication on the front panel that the receiver is working.  Pressing the test buttons to the right of the display will light up each row of digits if the DIM control is clockwise.  If a handset is connected and the SQUELCH is turned down you can hear hissing in the speaker.

GSQ-171 Directional Infrared Intrusion Detector

An eBay ad showed the GSQ-171 beside the USQ-46 receiver.  It has what appear to be Vietnamese markings.

What is this: Contact me
Fig 1
GSQ-171
Fig 2
GSQ-171

TS-2963 Test Set (Transmitter)

PP-6446A/USQ-46 Power Supply (Receiver, Test Set)


PP-6446A/USQ-46
                  Power Supply
PP-6446A/USQ-46
                  Power Supply

CS-12313/U for
                  PP-6446/USQ-46 or PP-6446/TS-2963

The following two units use "modular cylindrical building blocks).

GSQ-154

GSQ-160

Patents

Sonobuoy

1154272 Marine Mine, Emil Senger, Raimund Sauter, Sep 21, 1915, 102/408 -  a plug dissolves after a predetermined time scuttling the mine
1308003 Apparatus for detecting and indicating the presence of submarine boats, G.E. Elia (Italy), June 24, 1919, - raises a flag when sub entangles net
1426337 Signaling apparatus for detecting submarines, Sperry Elmer A, Filed: Jul 9, 1917, Pub: Aug 15, 1922, 455/97, 441/11, 343/709, 174/138.00R, 294/111, 313/553, 114/240.00R, 313/243, 102/402, 174/77.00R, 455/99, 174/153.00R, 343/896, 200/83.00R - when net is entangled by a sub the buoy sends a radio signal
2629083 Expendable radiosonic buoy, Barkson Joseph A, Mason Russell I, Mcnary James C, Filing: Sep 21, 1944, Pub: Feb 17, 1953, 367/3, 343/709, 455/99, 441/33, 441/23, 343/705, 343/901 -
1471547
Production of submarine signals and the location of submarine objects, Chilowsky Constantin, Langevin Paul, May 19, 1917 (W.W.I) Oct 23, 1923
                367/87, 367/174, 89/41.8, 89/41.7, 310/337 - uses the term "ultra-sonorous" 50 kHz to 200 kHz
1426337
Signaling apparatus for detecting submarines, Sperry Elmer A,  Jul 9, 1917, Aug 15, 1922, - triggered by net 455/97, 441/11, 343/709, 174/138.00R, 294/111, 313/553, 114/240.00R, 313/243, 102/402, 174/77.00R, 455/99, 174/153.00R, 343/896, 200/83.00R
2310017 Emergency transmitter, Hartman B Canon, Joseph L Swallow, Gard Well Co, Wells-Gardner, App: 1941-05-05, W.W.II, Pub: 1943-02-02, -
2311079 Transducer, Jr Josephus O Parr, 1943-02-16, - seismometer
2361177
Method and apparatus for the detection of submarines by airplanes, Constantin Chilowsky, Apr 25, 1941, Oct 24, 1944, -
                 367/120, 102/419, 244/137.1, 367/130, 102/427, 434/6
                1829474 Method and device for establishing communication between aircraft in full flight and the ground, Chilowsky Constantin
2397844 Signaling apparatus, Wallace W DeWhurst (RCA) Apr 2, 1946, 367/3, 138/89, 114/198, 455/99, D10/107, 441/11, 73/322.5 - sonobuoy

2402391 Submarine detection, De Witt R Goddard, Rca Corp, Filed: Aug 30, 1943, Pub: Jun 18, 1946, 367/115, 124/51.1, 89/1.51, 367/112, 221/279 -

2420676
Submarine signaling apparatus, Robert E Peterson, Jan 23, 1943 (W.W.II) May 20, 1947, 114/23, 367/150, 114/21.1, 116/27, 181/402, 114/21.3 - uses the term "superaudible frequencies"  
2422337 Submarine Detecting Buoy, C. Chilowsky, Jun 17 1947, 367/4; 441/11; 441/25; 441/26; 441/28; 455/99 -
Calls:
1249486 Sunken Ship Locating Device, Dec 11, 1917, 441/25; 242/156; 441/26 -
1195317 Observation-buoy and Fire Control for Floating Mines, Aug 22 1916,
1426337 Signaling Apparatus for Detecting Submarines, Aug 15 1922,
455/97; 102/402; 114/240.00R; 174/77.00R; 174/138.00R; 174/153.00R; 200/83.00R; 294/111; 313/243; 313/553; 343/709; 343/896; 441/11; 455/99 -
- sub hits net closing circuit keying a transmitter that uses a code wheel to identify it's serial number.
1427560 Means for Detecting Submarines, Aug 29, 1922, - another net type
1430162 Apparatus for Detecting and Indicating the Presence of Submaring Boats, Sep 26, 1922
1466284 Detecting System, (Western Electric) Aug 28, 1923, 367/122; 340/384.1 - multiple zone vibration detection
1610779 Signalling Apparatus, (GE) Dec 14 1926, -
1749444 Signal System, - police
2320610 Apparatus for Detecting and Indicating the Presence of Submarine Boats - net type

2438926 Magnetostrictive supersonic transducer, Mott Edward E, Bell Telephone Labs Inc, Apr 6, 1948, 367/168, 381/190, 335/215, 310/26
               
2417830 Compressional wave signaling device
2444069 System for receiving sounds in the presence of disturbing noises, Leon J Sivian, Bell Labs, App:1945-03-02, Pub: 1948-06-29, - null out own ship's propeller noise to allow hearing distant sub noises.
2447069 Signaling buoy, Jr Philo Holcomb, App: 1940-02-05, Top Secret, Pub: 1948-08-17, -
Sentinel buoys with cable to shore.
2448713
Radio listening buoy, Hansell Clarence W, Rca Corp, Dec 2, 1944, Sep 7, 1948, 367/3, 343/709, 441/13, 455/99, 343/702
2465696 Method and Means for Surveying Geological Formations, LeCoy C Paslay, Mar 29 1949, 367/23; 114/245; 346/33.00C; 367/16; 367/20; 367/155 -
Calls:
1378960 Method and Apparatus for Detecting Under Water Vibrations, J.W. Horton (WE), May 24 1921, 367/130 - submarine specific
1584613 Wave Detector, D.F. Comstock et al, May 11 1929, 367/130; 361/280; 361/283.1; 361/285; 367/129; 367/154 - sub detection directional array of sensors
2212988 Apparatus for Transmitting and Recording Shot Moments, D.K. Kirt (Gulf Oil R&D), Aug 27 1940, 367/77; 367/55 - seismograph prospecting
2241428 Apparatus for Underwater Seismic Surveying, D. Silverman (Standard Oil), May 1941,
2283200 Method and Apparatus for Subsurface Mining, J.W. Flode, 1942  - seismograph prospecting
2324378 submarine Prospecting, J.W. Flude, 1943 - seismograph prospecting
2440903 Underwater Transducer, F. Massa (Brush Dev Co), May 4 1948, 367/160; 381/163; 381/190 - piezoelectric or magnetostrictive transducers in towable rubber hose.

2511689 Submarine signaling apparatus, John T Beechlyn, Raytheon, 1950-06-13, - various designs of
magnetostriction using multiple elements

2521136 Hydrophone, A. Thuras, (USA) Sep 5, 1950, 310/26, 381/190, 367/168, 381/163
2586828 Radio buoy, Royal V Keeran, 1952-02-26, - has sea anchor to prevent drift

2593432
                        Automatically operated radio buoy, Freas Raymond
                        L, Apr 22, 1952
2593432 Automatically operated radio buoy, Freas Raymond L, Apr 22, 1952, 455/96, 455/99, 244/149, 455/91, 343/705, 455/98, 441/11, 455/97, 343/709, 367/4, 343/902

Falls straight down from aircraft over water.  Rights itself, an explosive extends the telescoping antenna, sends distress signal, after timer scuttles.

2637862 Buoyant chamber scuttling device, Raymond L Freas, 1953-05-12, -


2629083
Expendable radiosonic buoy, Barkson Joseph A, Mason Russell I, Mcnary James C, Filed: Sep 21, 1944, Pub: Feb 17, 1953, 367/3, 343/709, 455/99, 441/33, 441/23, 343/705, 343/901 -

2641751 Hydrophone Casing, (Navy),  367/173, Jun 1953 -
Calls:
806730 Device for locating and recovering sunken articles, Dec 5, 1905
1252877 Means for indicating the position of self-propelled vessels, Jan 8, 1918 - buoy released from practice torpedo at end of its run
1292755 Submarine detector or telltale, Jan 28, 1919 - net with alarm
1427560 Means for detecting submarine boats, Sperry Elmer A, Aug 29, 1922 - net with alarm
2261513 Mechanical boat lifter and indicator, Nov 4, 1941 -
2361177 Method and apparatus for the detection of submarines by airplanes, Oct 24, 1944 - fly in circle with long cable attached to hydrophone
2396960 Means for locating lost aircraft Mar 19, 1946 - 
2644243 Control Compass, (Navy), 361/280; 33/363.00Q, Jul 1953 -
Calls:
1639000 Wave modulation, Western Electric Co, Aug 16, 1927 -
2036833 Tuning condenser arrangement
2116103 Compass for automatic pilots, May 3, 1938 -
2277027 Telemetric system, West Instr Co Inc, Mar 24, 1942 - servo compass repeater
2319212 Photoelectric control device, May 18, 1943 - used to read compass rose
2346839  Baking utensil?
2363500 Gyro magnetic compass system, Sperry Gyroscope Co Inc, Nov 28, 1944 - 
2749436 Sonobuoy, R.H. Rines et al, Jun 5 1956, 455/99; 342/6; 367/3; 455/91; 455/107; 455/116; 455/129 -
Calls:
2063944 Means for Locating Crashed Airplanes, Jan 22, 1957, 116/210; 244/1.00R; 244/137.1 - based on sonobuoy technology
2063945 Diaphragm and Method
2063946 Sound Communication System
2063947 Compensator
2539594 System and Method of Communication
2361177 Method and Apparatus for the Detection of Submarines by Airplanes, C. Cilowsky, Oct 24 1944, - flying in circle lowers cable with hydrophone
2397844 Signaling Apparatus, W.W. Dewhurst (RCA), Apr 2, 1946, 367/3; 73/322.5; 114/198; 138/89; 441/11; 455/99; D10/107 - sub Tx buoy
2422337
2448713 Radio Listening Buoy, (RCA), Sep 7, 1948,  367/3; 343/702; 343/709; 441/13; 455/99 - very early sonobuoy
2448787 Apparatus for Detecting and Locating Enemy Vesels, (Ferrel Ind), Sep 7, 1948, - above surface microphone(the wrong place)
2758203 Sonobuoy, Harris Wilbur T, Harris Transducer Corp, Aug 7, 1956, 455/99, 342/5, 367/4 - shock absorber in cable to reduce noise & hydrophone electronics in descending pod, not in floating part
2760180 Long range explosive sonobuoy, George Sipkin, Filed: Oct 6, 1949, Pub: Aug 21, 1956, 367/2, 102/390, 367/133, 367/127 - EER type Underwater Sound Source
2790186 Sono-buoy stabilizer, Lawrence T Carapellotti, Navy, 1957-04-30, - To obtain stability of a sono-buoy when floated in water, it is necessary to place the center of gravity of the buoy well below the center of buoyancy. . . . .the static center of gravity is not materially altered, but wherein the dynamic center of gravity is placed well below the center of buoyancy." without adding weight.  This is done be allowing water to enter the cavity left when the cable spool drops down.
2817909 Training Device for Operators of Underwater Detection Appratus, B.M. Taylor, et al, Dec 31 1957, 434/9; 434/10
Calls:
1731127 Signal Control System (railroad), Oct 8 1929
1859423 Sound Recording - multiple needles for echos
2039405 Remote Metering System (AT&T) -
2066156 signaling Means, Apr 25 1929, - relative motion
2206156 Conveyer?
2206036 Distance Measuring Apparatus and System, J. Herson,  Jly 2 1940, - optical aircraft altitude blind landing
2329612 Apparatus for Training Aircraft Pilots, G.E. Hill et al, Sep 14 1943, - includes real time position output
2332523 Ground Track Tracer and Landing Recorder, E. Norden et al, Oct 26 1943, - servo controled pen recorders
2358793 Navigation Instruction Device, C.J. Crane, Sep 26 1944, - scaled movement of student over floor
2373560 Sound Recording Method and Apparatus, J.M. Hanert (Hammond Inst Co), Apr 10 1945 - adding vibrato
2375004 Training Apparatus, May 1 1945 - sound and recoil of a real gun
2444477 Automatic Miniature Radio Range (A-N), 1948 - used with pen recorder
2452038 Photoelectric Radio Compass Trainer Control, 1948 - based on scale map
2459150 Interception Trainer 1949 - call "Link" patents: 1825462, 2099857
2828475 Remote Control or Measurement Indicating Means, (Sec of Navy),  Mar 19 1958 - Sonobuoy that adds direction to sound in addition to just omni directional listening
Calls:
1571006 Signaling system, Western Electric Co, Priority: Sep 8, 1920 (16 year delay) Pub: Jan 26, 1926 - motor based secret signaling
1592940 Secret signaling, Western Electric Co, Priority: Sep 9, 1920 (16 year delay) Pub: Jul 20, 1926 - motor based secret signaling
1718497 Telemetric system, Gen Electric, Jun 25, 1929 - servo remote indicating
1732741 Duplex radio transmission system, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg Co, Oct 22, 1929 - combined audio & coded signals from a single source
1913512 Meteorological indicator, Jun 13, 1933 - radio transmitter hung below tethered - early radiosonde
1928969 Well survey instrument, Union Oil Co, Oct 3, 1933 - probe in pipe sends attitude info to surface
2089987 Means for operating a repeating device, Pioneer Instr Co Inc, Aug 17, 1937 -
2103847 Signaling, RCA - HF radio multiplex, Dec 28, 1937
2151747 Receiving system, Westinghouse, Mar 28, 1939 - simultaneously receives AM and FM signals
2177493 Fire detecting apparatus, works by photocell seeing movement of light
2316317 Frequency-responsive network, Hazeltine, Apr 13, 1943 - FM receiver for narrow band modulation ( 1 kHz)
2334704 Automatic pilot, Nov 23, 1943, uses magnetic sensors to control frequency generator (very similar to how DIFAR encodes direction)
2357975 Frequency modulation system, Rca, Sep 12, 1944 - receiver suitable for both AM and FM reception
2361177 Method and apparatus for the detection of submarines by airplanes, Constantin Chilowsky, Oct 24, 1944 - see MAD patents
2448787 Apparatus for detecting and locating enemy vessels, Ferrel Ind, Sep 7, 1948 - rotating hydrophone and radio transmitter (DIFAR)
calls:
1610779 Signaling apparatus, Gen Electric, Dec 14, 1926 - an underwater device that sends a signal when it receives a signal.  aimed at ship positioning, but could also be used for sub detection?  A number of patents reference this on.
2838741 Underwater sound detection system, Warren P Mason, Bell Labs, 1958-06-10, - SOSUS (Wiki) idea started in 1949) this is the correct time frame.
for use on a continental shelf where there's constant depth where the low frequency cutoff  is given by f = v/4H.
If H = 1640 feet (500 meters) (Wiki: Blake Plateau) and v = 1500 meters/second; then
f = 1500/(4*500) = .75 per second or about 1 Hz.
This is very similar if not identical to waveguide propagation modes (Wiki).
Uses a shore station.
Cites:
2432083 Hydrophone Jr Robert Black, Frank F Romanow, Oscar A Shann, Bell Labs, App: 1942-12-08, W.W.II, Pub: 1947-12-09, -
3022448 Modular sub-assembly, Feb 1962
3061249 Floating means, Chipperfield Victor James, Ultra Electronics, 1962-10-30, - parachute or roto-chute, bag that's inflated to form a float,
3081466 Scuttling device, Paul C Bailey, Navy, 1963-03-19, - dissolving plug below water line
3093808
Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy, Gimber George A, Scarcelli Albert F, Tatnall George J, Secretary of the Navy , Jun 11, 1963, 367/4, 441/33, 441/25, 343/709, 455/99 - Prior art sonobuoys were 3' long, 5" diameter and weighed 16 to 20 pounds limiting aircraft time on station and had a max depth of about 50'.  This one is 15" long, about 3" dia and weighs about 5 pounds with a max depth of 300'.
3116471 Radio sonobuoy system, Jesse J Coop, Dec 31, 1963, 367/3, 367/5, 367/113, 367/101, 367/126, 367/115, 318/638 -  In the present invention a multi-beam directional hydrophone is utilized in a radio sonobuoy system whereby an immediate quadrant location and an accurate distance measurement of a reflecting object from the multi-beam directional sonobuoy can be obtained from a single pressure pulse generated in the water area of interest.  - DIFAR
3132322
Radiosonic buoys, Guy Maes, Electronique Appliquee, Feb 9, 1959, May 5, 1964, 367/4, 340/870.28, 343/710, 441/23, 455/127.1, 455/99, 441/11, 340/870.1, 343/880
3140886 Coupling Device, E.J. Cotilla, George A. Gimber, Navy, July 14, 1964, - for separating the float from the hydrophone,
3213409 Condition selector apparatus, Paul C Bailey, George A Gimber, Navy, Aug 19, 1963, -
3234503 Drag chute and flotation device, Francis X Wojciechowski, Harald E KarlsonHoffman Electronics, 1966-02-08, - parachute is onion shaped and (1) pulls out telescoping antenna and (2) acts as a float.  -I question if it would last as long as the battery, also if it would work after the sonobuoy goes down ten or twenty feet.
3262094 Discontinuous hollow cylindrical transducer, Leon W Camp, Bendix, 1966-07-19, - polarized magnetostriction transducer  7 to 10 kHz
3276049 Deep water buoyancy apparatus, Thomas E Stixrud, Navy, 1966-10-04, - "A more particular object of this invention is to provide a deep water buoy which utilizes the vaporization of a liquid gas as a source of buoyancy. "
3281765 Minature Sonobuoy and Cable (ITT), Oct 25, 1966 - small dia (0.030") cable which acts as a spring, Ni-Cad batt charged prior to use.
Calls:
2422337
2641751 Hydrophne Casing, Bernier Jr Hector F, Mason Russell I, Ripken John F, Us Navy, Filed: May 11, 1944, Pub: Jun 9, 1953, 367/173 - about playing out the line supporting hte hydrophone below the buoy.
3093808 Air Dropped Miniature Sonobuoy, (Navy), Jun 11, 1963, 367/4; 343/709; 441/25; 441/33; 455/99 -
3290642 Directional Sonobuoy, (Navy), Dec 6, 1966,  367/4; 367/120; 367/129; 441/33 - weight driven rotating sensors
3309649 Sonobuoy with Depth Selection Capabilities, Sanders Assoc, Mar 14 1967, 367/4; 441/33 - spherical shape
3328750 Entrapped air flotation device, George A Gimber, Roy L Shipman, Navy, June 27, 1967, - instead of using a CO2 cartridge
3355544 Small diameter high tensile strength coaxial electrical cable, Vivian G Costley James E Cottrell, Navy, 1967-11-28, - "...
diameter of no greater than approximately 70 mils and a tensile strength in excess of approximately 150 p.s. i. for suspending a hydrophone assembly of a sonobuoy...", "This invention relates to low noise electrical cables and more particularly to a new and improved coaxial conductor of such construction as to have a small diameter, reasonably low attenuation for a 400 kc. electrical signal, watertight under high hydrostatic pressures and yet being capable of supporting high tensile loads. "...predetermined depth many thousands of feet below the water's surface." 
3377615
Compliant suspension system, Sparton Corp, Apr 9, 1968
3460058 Radio Sonobuoy, Ronald H Taplin, ITT, Aug 5, 1969, 367/4 - operates below thermocline, uses rotochute, hydrophone at 12,000' down.
3480907 Neutrally buoyant hydrophone streamer, Joel D King, Texas Instruments, 1969-11-25, - used in towed linear array
3517378
Underwater long-distance sound-detection system, Barrett Robert E, Us Navy, Filed: Nov 6, 1959, (11 year dealy), Pub: Jun 23, 1970, 367/2, 367/134 - EER explosive
3526002 Magnebuoy, Ramond C Waddel, 1970-08-25, - Proton Precession (kerosene) (Wiki)
3646505 Automatically deployable sonobuoy, Woodrow P Kirby, Naval Air Systems Cmd, 1972-02-29, - Rotochute, directional hydrophone (41), maybe the SSQ-2?
3671928 Automatically energizable Sonobuoy, Aquatronics, Jun 20 1972, 367/4; 441/11; 441/33 - some similarity to acoubuoy.
3720909 Directional Hydrophone System, Spartan Corp, Mar 13 1973, 367/173 - seismic sensors in sonobuoy
Calls:
3451040 Spring Suspension for a Low-frequency Geophone, W.R. Johnson, )MarkProd Inc), Jun 17 1969, 367/183 -
Calls:
2751573
3344397
2390328 Directional Seismograph Pickup, R.J. Roberts (Std Oil), Dec 4, 1945, 367/185; 340/870.35 -
2856594 Seismic Detector, K.W. McLoad (Vector Mfg), Oct 14 1958, 367/154; 73/652 - underwater
3325778 Seismic Sonobuoy, S.S. Ballard (Sanders Assoc), Jun 13, 1967, 367/21; 330/51; 330/124.00R; 330/278; 367/66; 455/99 -
3377615 April 1968 Lutes
3281765 October 1966 Taplin
2435587 February 1948 Harry
3372368 March 1968 Dale et al.
3539979 November 1970 Crall
3724374 Underwater sound source, Smith D, Somerville J, Yaccarino J, Us Navy, Apr 3, 1973, 181/116, 367/3, 367/145, 102/417 - used with sonobuoys, multiple charges triggered by radio from the aircraft
3786403 Underwater Acoustical Detection, Navy, Jan 1, 1974, 367/4; 441/25; 441/26 - (Search-In-DEpth Concept of Acoustic Ranging = SIDECAR),
Calls:
app 549209 Apr 19 1966 A.S. Will et al
app 452460 Apr 18 1965 Urick et al
app 502713 Oct 22 1965 Urick
2422337 June 1947 Chilowsky Submarine detecting buoy
3222634 December 1965 Foster Underwater locating device
3275976 September 1966 Farmer Bottom release mechanism for a sonobuoy

4057778
                          Built-in test equipment for sonobuoy, Albert
                          M. Bates, Anthony J. Madera, Navy, 1977-11-08 4057778
                          Built-in test equipment for sonobuoy, Albert
                          M. Bates, Anthony J. Madera, Navy, 1977-11-08

Calibrators & Test Sets

3875548 Calibrator plug-in-module for sonobuoy, Robert S Acks, Navy, 1975-04-01, - inserted between the hydrophone and sonobuoy (how?).

4057778 Built-in test equipment for sonobuoy, Albert M. Bates, Anthony J. Madera, Navy, 1977-11-08, - for DIFAR
Includes block diagram of DIFAR sonobuy shown at left.
4092627 Calibration circuit for expendable sonobuoys, Donald Murdock, Thomas E. Stixrud, Navy, 1978-05-30, - a 10 Ohm resistor between the hydrophone and ground is driven from a high value resistor to supply a 10 Hz test signal for one minute every 17 minutes.
4393483 Test set for a directional command active sonobuoy system (DICASS), David C. Hammond, Stephen M. Elchenko, John M. Tralies, Peter W. Verburgt, Leon R. Robinson, Navy, 1983-07-12, - flight  line test set for aircraft, not the sonobuoy.
5978646 Method and apparatus for simulating a LOFARgram in a multipath sonar system, Henry Weinberg, Navy, 1999-11-02, - Cites 28 prior art patents,

3921120 Float Actuated Release Mechanism, Sparton Corp., Nov 18 1975, 367/4; 116/209; 441/33 -
Calls:
2778332 January 1957 Talbot Means for locating crashed airplanes
3093808 June 1963 Tatnall et al. Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy
3140886 July 1964 Cotilla et al. Coupling device
3220028 November 1965 Maes Radio-sono-buoys
3309649 March 1967 Ballard et al. Sonobuoy with depth selection capabilities
3646505 February 1972 Kirby Automatically deployable sonobuoy
3701175 October 1972 Widenhofer Hydrophone damper assembly
3943870 Pinging controlled anti-torpedo device, LeRoy C. Paslay, Navy, App: 1950-10-24, Korea & Vietnam, Pub: 1976-03-16, anti-torpedo filtered by speed of torpedo and triggered by distance from own ship.  Improvement on 2979015.
3944964 Air Dripped Linear Acoustic Detector, (Navy), Mar 16, 1976,  367/4 -
3982222 Deep hydrophone string, Robert J. Urick, Navy, App:1965-10-22, Pub: 1976-09-21, - "...long range detection, surveillance and communication by means of sonobuoys operating in the deep sea and is more particularly concerned with a deep hydrophone string operatively connected with a specialized sonobuoy for this purpose. "
3991475 Depth selecting spool device, Navy, Nov 16, 1976, 116/209; 367/4; 441/24 -
calls:
3093808 June 1963 Tatnall et al. Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy
3262090 July 1966 Farmer Sonobuoy depth selection mechanism
3921120 November 1975 Widenhofer Float actuated release mechanism

4004265 Thomas E. Woodruff,
4096598 Selected Depth Mooring System, R.J. Mason, 441/25, Jun 1978 -
Calls:
3631550 Mooring Devices, (EMI), 441/25, Jan 4, 1972 -
4026188 Modular buoy system, Thomas E. Woodruff, Roger I. Saunders, Lockheed Sanders Inc, 1977-05-31 -

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4092627 Calibration circuit for expendable sonobuoys, Donald Murdock, Thomas E. Stixrud, Navy, 1978-05-30, - a dual 555 timer (Wiki) circuit generates a signal that's applied to a 10 Ohm resistor between the hydrophone and ground to make a test signal.  15VDC supply, R5 & 10 Ohms.  17 minutes off and 1 minute one using a 10 Hz test signal.  The value of R5 is not mentioned so the amplitude of the signal in series with the hydrophone can only be guessed.  If R5 was 1 Meg then the current would be 15V/1M = 15 uA.  15 uA * 10 Ohm = 150 uV.
4093934 Free-falling sonobuoy, Robert J. Urick, Robert L. Parris, Navy, App: 1965-04-28, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1978-06-06, -
4114137 Directional Sonobuoy, (Navy), 367/171; 441/1; 441/28, Sep 12 1978
Calls:
  768568 Sound transmitter and receiver, Submarine Signal Co, Aug 23, 1904 - stereo hydrophone with 2 long pole earphones
1345717 Acoustic device, Western Electric, Jul 6, 1920 - carbon button microphone mounted in a tear drop shape for use underwater.
3382481 Cantilever mounted hydrophone, Texas Instruments, May 7, 1968 - marine seismometer insensitive to cable strumming (5 Hz and above).
3803540 Inflatable underwater platform, Nat Defence, Apr 9, 1974 - water pumped into tubes to from a structure for sonobuoy (to make hydrophone array) many patents reference this one
3864771 Deployable load buoyancy support container or shelter system, Textron, Feb 11, 1975 - telescoping sonobuoy construction

4143349 Cable depth selector and coil shunt penetrator, (Bunker Ramo Corporation), Mar 6, 1979, 367/4, 441/1, 439/391 -
4161716 Very low frequency sonobuoy (VLF sonobuoy), Thomas E. Stixrud, Navy, 1979-07-17, - all about decoupling from sources of noise.
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4186370 Stabilized sonobuoy suspension, Raytheon, Jan 29, 1980, 367/4; 367/130; 441/11; 441/33 -
4189786 Radio Buoy Assembly, R.E. Adler, Feb 19 1980, 367/4; 367/5; 367/133 -
4246671 Buoy anchoring system, Richard C. Swenson, Navy, 1981-01-27, -
4247143 Payload release mechanism, Stephen G. Putman, Navy, 1981-01-27, -
4323988
Sonobuoy system, Albert S. Will, Earl A. Schuchard, John P. Buckley, Armand Cioccio, John C. Hetzler, Jr., Sylvan Wolf, Donald E. Jefferson, Jim B. McQuitty, Robert A. Urick, Secretary Of The Navy, Apr 6, 1982 (TOP SECRET), 367/4, 367/173, 367/153 - A deep water explosive echo ranging system capable of detecting high performance  submarines by using favorable acoustic paths available at deep depths.
4357688 Low cost sonobuoy, Navy, Nov 2, 1982, 367/4; 367/173 -
4358834 Self-deploying Buoy System, Navy, Nov 9, 1982, 367/4; 367/173 -
4406631 Flotation device, John R. Dale, Navy, 1983-09-27, - two liquids mix and form foam.
4493664 Sonobuoy Float Inflation and Depth Selection Initiators, Navy, Jan 15, 1985,  441/7; 222/5; 367/4; 441/26; 441/30; 441/33 - open CO2 & select depth
4494024 One shot spring activated motor, Gerald W. Braun, undersea sensor systems, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1985-01-15, - spring activated motor that can turn CW or CCW depending on which holding rope is cut/burned, maybe for setting depth?
4530269 Remotely Initiated Speration Latch Assembly, Burroughs Corp, Jul 23 1985, 89/1.14; 102/293; 102/378; 220/261; 367/4; 367/173; 403/2 - electrical match for seperation
4546459 Method and apparatus for a phased array transducer, John C. Congdon, 1985-10-08, - DIFAR directional hydrophone
4590590 Sonobuoy Multiple Depth Deployment Apparatus, Magnavox, May 20 1986, 367/4; 441/25; 441/33 -
4689773 Extendible sonobuoy apparatus, John C. Congdon, Thomas A. Richter, Joseph J. Slachta, Magnavox Government and Industrial Electronics,
4709359 End weighted reed sound transducer, Rayford A. Loftin, Magnavox Electronic Systems, Undersea Sensor Systems, 1987-11-24, - 4 hydrophones for DIFAR
4727520 (RE33014) Cable Deployment Unit, Sparton of Canada, Feb 23, 1988, 367/4; 367/3; 441/25 - hot wire (35) melts line allowing spring to activate stop setting hydrophone depth.
4901288 Compact cylindrical sonobuoy, Sparton Corp, Feb 13 1990, 367/4 -
4924445 Sonobuoy Cable Pack, Royal Navy, May 8, 1990, 367/4; 114/326; 367/3; 441/8 -
4927057 Automatic Infiltrator for Inflatable Articles, Inflation Tech, May 22, 1990, 222/5; 222/23; 222/41; 222/52; 222/63; 222/93; 222/94; 441/93 -
4493664 Sonobuoy float inflation and depth selection initiators, John R. Dale, Secretary Of The Navy, Jan 15, 1985, 441/7, 441/26, 222/5, 441/30, 367/4, 441/33 -
4560228 Electrical connector for sonobuoy launch system, Roland Bender, Navy, Dec 24, 1985, - pogo pins and metal contacts
4777627 Extendible sonobuoy apparatus, John C. Congdon, undersea sensor systems, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1988-10-11, -
5073136 Collapsible sonobuoy floatation device, Paul H. DeWitt, James J. Majewski, Thomas A. Richter, undersea sensor systems, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1991-12-17, - cylindrical bellows,
5076468 Squib Inflator Adapter, Halkey-Roberts Corp, Dec 31, 1991, 222/5; 222/91; 441/93 -
5197036 Sonar Array Mounting for Sonobuoy, Mar 23, 1993, 367/4; 367/153 -
5426617 Long baseline tracking system, Reginald J. Cyr, Secretary Of The Navy, Jun 20, 1995, 367/6 - uses multiple underwater transponders
6400645 Sonobuoy Apparatus, (Navy), Jun 4, 2002, 367/4; 367/3; 367/153 - opens sort of like an 8-sided umbrella

Magnavox

3299375 Elastic stretchable coaxial cable having constant capacitance using woven or helically wound conductors, Charles S Thompson, Magnavox, 1967-01-17, - for sonobuoy hydrophones
3336892 Cable dispensing and locking means, Gerald J Barry, Thomas B Harker, Magnavox, 1967-08-22, - for sonobuoy hydrophones
Cites:
3035285 Explosively anchored buoy, Jr Walter G Squires, 1962-05-22, - for marking applications where buoy is under water until a timer runs out then it surfaces.
3054123 Buoy with explosive anchor, Adolph F Moeller, Navy, 1962-09-18, - "Navy dan buoy": "A temporary marker buoy used during minesweeping operations to indicate the boundaries of swept paths, swept areas, known hazards, and other locations or reference points."
2722018 Float marker, Walter V Mueller, 1955-11-01, -
3036542 Embedment anchor, Russell S Robinson, Pneumo Dynamics, 1962-05-29
2993461Embedment anchor
3603921 Sound transducer, Robert H Dreisbach, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1971-09-07, - 4 lobe hydrophone for sonobuoy
3656151 Digital function generation network, William E Richeson Jr, Mike B Feher (N4FS), Magnavox, 1972-04-11, 341/147; 341/153 -
"In the early days of DIFAR there was no real grayscale on the chart paper which indicated signal strength. Essentially you either had nothing or a real dark line. My logarithmic converter remedied that in that it allowed smooth transitions as signal strength varied. Of course now there would be so many better ways of doing it. However, at the time it worked and everyone was pleased. 73 – Mike"  See AQA-7 below.
4007316 Deferred action battery having an improved depolarizer, Ralph F. Koontz, Magnavox Co, 1977-02-08, 429/118; 429/220; 429/229 - sea water activated
4086560 Secret depth sounder, Thomas F. Johnston, Aaron Z. Robinson, Navy, App: 1959-04-03, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1978-04-25, - uses recorded ambient noise as the signal transmitter and a correlator processes the received signal.
4192913 Deferred action battery having an improved depolarizer, Ralph F. Koontz, Lloyd E. Klein, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1980-03-11, 429/119; 429/220
4261853 Deferred action battery having an improved depolarizer, Ralph F. Koontz, Lloyd E. Klein, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1981-04-14, 252/182.1; 429/118; 429/119; 429/220 -
4268912 Directional hydrophone suitable for flush mounting, John C. Congdon, Magnavox, 1981-05-19, 367/163; 310/337; 310/365; 310/366; 367/164; 367/174 - for use on submarine
4494024 One shot spring activated motor, Gerald W. Braun, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1985-01-15, 310/75A; 200/61.08; 310/273 - a squib (resistor) severs a cord releasing a CW or CCW spring to drive a shaft (for setting depth of hydrophone).  Note some torpedo gyroscopes use a very similar squib released spring motor.
4546459 Method and apparatus for a phased array transducer, John C. Congdon, Magnavox, 1985-10-08, 367/155; 367/157; 367/159; 367/165 - DIFAR beam forming
4590590 Sonobuoy multiple depth deployment apparatus, James R. Toone, Robert L. Barker, Magnavox, 1983-11-29, 367/4; 441/25; 441/33 - See Fig: 53-21, 53-23, 53-24,
4611293 Method and apparatus for automatic calibration of magnetic compass, Ronald R. Hatch, Richard G. Keegan, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1986-09-09, 702/92; 324/245; 33/355R; 33/356 - 360 deg turn compensates for both soft and hard iron. 3-phase Earth Induction compass (aircraft application?)  [Hatch holds many GPS related patents)]
4654832 Sonobuoy retaining and release apparatus, Robert L. Barker, Magnavox, 1983-11-29, 367/4; 441/33 - Sonobuoy parachute, see figs: 53-6, 53-7, 53-8
4660040 Target range sensing apparatus, Norman Grandos, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1987-04-21, 342/128; 342/193; 342/68 - "Target range sensing apparatus" - maybe a bomb fuze using FM-CW, or a sonobuoy range detector?
4689773 Extendible sonobuoy apparatus, John C. Congdon, Thomas A. Richter, Joseph J. Slachta, Magnavox, 1982-12-02, 367/3; 367/159; 367/165; 367/169; 367/173 - DIFAR sonobuoy "The components typically include an electronics canister, acoustic wave phase controls and one or more active electroacoustic transducers. The components are attached to a plurality of flexible support cables. The cables are attached at their respective upper ends to the bottom of the canister and are attached at their lower ends to the bottom of the tube. The cables are collapsed during the pre-deployed state and tautly extended during the deployed state. Axial guide strips are affixed to the inner surface of the tube. The canister and transducer have recesses engaging the strips in a sliding fit to prevent rotation about the tube longitudinal axis during deployment. The electro acoustic transducer may be mounted to the tube at a predetermined axial location on the tube. "
4700100 Flexural disk resonant cavity transducer, John C. Congdon, Thomas A. Whitmore, Magnavox, 1987-10-13, 310/332; 310/324; 310/326; 310/337; 367/155 - improves the frequency response of Helmholtz cavity in the 1 to 2 kHz range.
4709359 End weighted reed sound transducer, Rayford A. Loftin, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1987-11-24, 367/155; 367/161 - four vanes
4797841 Method and apparatus for automatic calibration of magnetic compass, Ronald R. Hatch, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1989-01-10, 702/92; 324/245; 33/355R; 33/356 - 3-phase Induction compass
4777627 Extendible sonobuoy apparatus, John C. Congdon, Magnavox, 1985-06-26, 367/3; 367/159; 367/173; 367/4; 441/1 -
EP0098017A2 End weighted reed sound transducer, Rayford A. Loftin, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1985-08-28, - four bars
4970703 Switched capacitor waveform processing circuit, Peruvamba R. Hariharan, Robert W. Downing, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1990-11-13, 367/138; 367/122 - sonar beam forming or sonobuoy?
5018116 Inter-element mounting for stacked piezoelectric transducers, John C. Congdon, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1991-05-21, 367/165; 310/334 -
5046031 Method and apparatus for automatic flux-gate compass calibration, Richard E. Wanous, Magnavox Govt & Ind, 1991-09-03, 702/92; 33/356; 324/245; 73/1.76 - compensates for loading & unloading the vehicle (not sonobuoy, but shows a lot of understanding in fluxgate magnetometers as used on DIFAR sonobuoy).
5073136 Collapsible sonobuoy flotation device, Paul H. DeWitt, James J. Majewski, Thomas A. Richter, Magnavox Electronic Systems, 1990-03-29, 441/7; 441/11; 441/21; 441/30; 441/32 - Pagoda/ Accordion shape can be pressed flat for stowage.  
5286462 Gas generator system for underwater buoyancy, Jonathan E. Olson, Magnavox, 1994-02-15, - water + Lithium Hydroxide = Hydrogen

SONAR

Around August 2021 I realized that the displays used for Sonobuoys and passive SONAR are identical.  During W.W.II it looks like they did NOT have frequency and/or bearing waterfall displays which are the norm today.  So I'm trying to find when and who the waterfall display was introduced.  There are a number of Audio Analysis patents on the SSQ-53A web page.  They typically show human voice or bird calls as the thing being analyzed and often use the term "complex waves" which I think is code for underwater sounds.

From the web page: SQS Series Sonars:

model
Freq
kHz
Pulse
mS
Range
k yards
Scan
RPS
SQS-1 20 - 28
12/36
1.5/4/6
90
SQS-4
Mod 1
8

5.5

SQS-4
Mod 2
10

4.5

SQS-4
Mod 3
12

4.5

SQS-4
Mod 4
14
6/30/80
4.5

SQS-7
12
3/10/60
2.5/5/10

SQS-10
20
6/30/80
1/3/6
150
SQS-23
4.5/5/5.5
.005/.03/.12
1/2.5/5/10 150

Were the SQS-nn SONAR sets all after the searchlight type.  What was the nomenclature for the searchlight type?

2391678 Sound detecting and indicating system, Schuck Oscar Hugo, Leon G S Wood, Navy, App: 1944-08-14, W.W.II, Pub: 1954-12-21, - A single ring of 36 magnetostrictive elements.  This is the "OMNI" system which is much faster than the Prior Art searchlight system.
2405134 Distance measuring system, Walter J Brown, John E Shomer, Brush Development Co, App: 1942-08-03, W.W.II, Pub: 1946-08-06, - FM CW special shape of variable cap plates.
2431854 Apparatus for suppressing reverberation, Leon G S Wood, Navy, App: 1944-08-03, W.W.II, Pub: 1947-12-02, - uses narrow band filter to only listen to the Doppler shifted frequency associated with the target thus eliminating other returns.
2438580 Compensator for doppler effect, Schuck Oscar Hugo, Navy, App: 1943-11-06, W.W.II, Pub: 1948-03-30, - he worked for Hunt at the Harvard Underwater Sound Lab. For searchlight type SONAR to cancel the Doppler of the own ship motion.
2473974 Underwater sound detecting and indicating system, Schuck Oscar Hugo, App: 1944-05-18, W.W.II, Pub: 1949-06-21, - Omni ping, motorized searchlight receiver.
2515154 Transducer, Charles H Lanphier, Sangamo Electric, App: 1946-07-15, W.W.II, Pub: 1950-07-11, -
2695371 Control transformer and generator, Herbert O Barnes, Sangamo Electric, 1954-11-23, - an electrical commutator for a fixed SONAR array and synchronous drive for a CRT tube. SQS-4
2697822 Sound detecting and indicating system, Schuck Oscar Hugo, Leon G S Wood, App: 1944-08-14, W.W.II, Pub: 1954-12-21, - has the look and feel of patent
2391678, SQS-4
2709796 Automatic target training, Isaac P Rodman, Nolle Alfred Wilson, Allen A Chernosky, Leon G S Wood, Navy, App: 1945-03-30, W.W.II, Pub: 1955-05-31, - for searchlight SONAR. Cites 2666192 by Hunt et al.  also see 2987698 for range gating.
2762447 Cavity radiometer, Walter G Cady, Navy, 1956-09-11, -
o improve the art ofunder water radiation-pressure-measuring apparatus
 2791756 Target doppler indicator, Leon G S Wood, Paul B Sebring, Navy, App: 1946-06-11, W.W.II, Pub: 1957-05-07, - for active SONAR.  Mentions: "
The recorder may be any of several known types of which an example is manufactured by the Sangamo Electric Company, Springfield, Illinois, and described in a publication of that manufacturer entitled "Instructions for Type CAN-55070 Range Recorder.” see Sangamo patent 1350485.
2987698 Indicating a selected target echo in an echo wave train obtained by echo ranging, Isaac P Rodman, Nolle Alfred Wilson, Allen A Chernosky, Leon G S Wood, Navy, App: 1945-03-30, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1961-06-06, - range gating, Sangamo Electric Co electro-chemical chart paper, trace gets much darker when return signal appears - maybe the start of waterfall displays.
2991445 Echo ranging system, Haynes James Burney, Charles H Lanphier,
Sangamo Electric, 1961-07-04, - spiral sweep PPI (Wiki) type CRT display of range and bearing. SQS-4
3016513 Fm echo-ranging system, Karl S Van Dyke, App: 1943-05-26, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1962-01-09, -
3497868 Echo ranging system,
Charles H Lanphier, Sangamo Electric, App: 1957-06-17, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1970-02-24, - A cylindrical stack of four fixed rings of 48 transducers (7.5 degrees).  Prior Art SONAR systems worked on the searchlight principle where it took about 4 minutes to make a 360 degree scan.  An improved Prior Art system was the "OMNI" where the transmitted ping was in all directions but only a segment of the transducers were used for receive as described in patent 2515154.  Mentions SQS-4 MOD 4 NAVSHIPS 92283 (A).
3613069
Sonar system, Cary Boyd B Jr, Fenlon Francis H, Gen Dynamics Corp, Oct 12, 1971, 367/92, 367/104, 367/107, 367/101 - combines two Tx frequencies (Mixer Transducer & Pump Transducer- higher SPL), 12, 48 & 60 kHz.    
4194246 Noisemaker beacon, Ralph P. Crist, US Navy, 1958-05-12, -
4320474
Saturation limited parametric sonar source, John M. Huckabay, Reuben H. Wallace, Secretary Of The Navy, Mar 16, 1982, 367/138, 367/92 - phased array?  
4777627 Extendible sonobuoy apparatus, John C. Congdon, Magnavox, 1988-10-11, - DIFAR
4939699 Sonar system, Francis J. Murphree, Henry L. Warner, Edward G. McLeroy, Navy, App: 1966-12-08,
TOP SECRET, Pub: 1990-07-03, - "A sonar system having a sonar transmitter which is programmed to broadcast two sets of several increasing frequency signals, with the frequency gap between each set thereof sufficient to cause them to distinguish between deep and shallow water targets, respectively. A heterodyne receiver receives target echoes of said sets of several frequency signals and converts them to two sets of identical frequency signals which are then readout as a single continuous target display signal."
4939702
Barrier sonar, Francis J. Murphree, Secretary Of Navy, Filed: Jul 19, 1968(12 year delay) Pub: Jul 3, 1990, 367/138, 367/87, 367/93 -
4998224 System for providing improved reverberation limited sonar performance, Mar 5, 1991
5138587 Harbor Approach- Defense Embedded System, (Navy), 367/136, Aug 1992
5144487 Expendable moving echo radiator, (Navy),  367/1; 367/137; 367/165, Sep 1992 - countermeasures equip
5235558 Choke point bistatic sonar, Harvey C. Woodsum, Joseph J. Stapleton, Gte Government Systems Corp, Aug 10, 1993, 367/92, 367/104, 367/15, 367/908 -
5808580 Radar/sonar system concept for extended range-doppler coverage,
6018493 Sonar Suspension Apparatus, Dowty Maritime Sys, Jan 25, 2000,  367/16; 367/20; 367/153; 367/155; 367/165; 441/33 -
6707760 Projectile sonar, Andrew C. Coon, Howard Allen Lazoff, Richard Phillip Taschler, Raytheon, 2004-03-16, - a surface ship fires special shells (explode at set depth) and using sonar processes the returned sub echo.

Dr. Breed & Hughes

5134369 Three axis magnetometer sensor field alignment and registration, Allen K. Lo, Wilbur W. Eaton, Jr.Ben R. Breed, Raytheon (Hughes), 1992-07-28, -
5239474 Dipole moment detection and localization, Wilbur W. Eaton, Jr.Ben R. Breed, Raytheon (Hughes), 1993-08-24, - based on Anderson Localization (Wiki
5617099 Adaptive filtering of matched-filter data, Ronald W. Warren, Ben R. Breed, Raytheon (Hughes), 1997-04-01, -
 
 

Launching

Photo from Wiki Sonobuoy page

From Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet (2005):
The P3C Orion. . .  tail-mounted ASQ-81 Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) and 48 external (fuselage) sonolbuoy chutes and four in-flight reloadable (internal) chutes; a total of 84 buoys normally are carried.
P#C Orion External Sonobuoys being installed

Note The silver cylinder on the top of each sonobuoy.
It's a gas generator that's electrically triggered.
Cartridge-Actuated Device = CAD
MIL-C-83124
An alternative to using compressed gas from a tank.
See patents directly below.
Fig 1 from patent 3905291:

3905291
                  Cartridge-Actuated Device and Launching Assembly using
                  same, G.T. Corbin, Sep 16 1975, 102/430; 42/96

2707904 Sonobuoy Dispensers, Breeze Corp, May 10, 1955, 89/1.51; 367/3 - revolver,
3093808 Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy, George J Tatnall, Albert F Scarcelli, George A Gimber, US Navy, 1963-06-11, -
3228281 Tactical navigation display system, Pliny G Holt, Navy, 1966-01-11, - mission from aircraft carrier, sonobuoy triangle pattern & return to carrier at new position. looks like aircraft instrument.
3266372 Shipping and launching container, Harold J Mack, Albert F Scarcelli, US Navy, 1966-08-16
3451306 Safe and Arm Ejection System, Susquehanna Corp, Jun 24 1969, 89/1.1; 89/1.51; 102/259; 102/357 -
3905291 Cartridge-Actuated Device and Launching Assembly using same, G.T. Corbin, Sep 16 1975, 102/430; 42/96 -
4026188 Modular Buoy System, Sandars Assoc, May 31 1977, 89/1.51; 102/351; 102/352; 102/354; 102/406 -
4263835 Sonobuoy Launcher System, Navy, Apr 28, 1981, 89/1.51; 89/1.3; 89/1.806; 89/1.818 - bouys loaded from outside
4397433 Revolving-cylinder jettison device for transporting and releasing buoys on and from Aircraft, , Aug 9 1983, 244/137.4; 89/1.51; 89/1.801; 244/118.1 -
5052270 Multi-sonobuoy launch container with constant force spring, Navy, Oct 1 1991, 89/1.51; 244/137.4 -
7278416 Pneumatic projectile launcher and sonobuoy launcher adaptor, Lockheed-Martin, Oct 9, 2007, 124/72; 89/1.51 -

Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) (Wiki)

The Earth's magnetic field varies between 25,000 and 70,000 Gamma (aka: nanoTesla) (Wiki) depending on the location.
These were originally called Magnetic Airborne Detectors (Ref 3) and was developed by the NDRC (Wiki, Executive Order 8807 June 28, 1941) and was paired with the use of sonobuoys.

Maximum range 1 to 2 thousand feet. I'm guessing the range includes the depth of the sub, so the deeper the sub the more likely MAD will miss it.

When I lived in Mountain View it was a very common sight to see a P-3 Orion (Wiki) landing or taking off from Moffett Field Naval Air Station (Wiki).  They had a "stinger" on the tail that held the magnetic anomaly detector.  Here's a Youtube video of the MX-1361/ASQ-8 MAD
It appears to have 3 coils, each about 4" in diameter by 2" thick made by TI mounted in 3 orthogonal directions (X, Y & Z)

The ASA-65 is the motion compensator for the ASQ-81 MAD system.  That's to say that any motion of the P-3 will cause the X, Y & Z components of the Earth's magnetic filed to change.  To back that out three coils can be placed over the magnetic sensors and those coils driven from the output of the ASA-65.

When testing a MAD a small portable "Gamma Slinger" is used that generates a known (1045' c.g.s units) rotating magnetic field.

1045 Gauss converts to 104,500,000 nanotesla.  Since the Earth's field is about 50,000 nanotesla the Gamma Slinger is about 2000 times as strong as the Earth's filed.
It's probably made using a modern permanent magnet rotated on a shaft by a clock work where the shaft and clockwork are all non magnetic.  This test device could be used on the flight line to check out the MAD system.

It can easily be detected at over 20 feet using the ASQ-81.

The AN/ASQ-208 is a digital processing type MAD system.

The ASQ-1, ASQ-1A, ASQ-3 and ASQ-3A  was used in conjunction with the CRT-1 sonobuoy in W.W.II.
Ref pg 302, Chapter 16, SOFAR, Harbor Defense, and other SONAR Systems, Naval Sonar, NAVPERS 10884, 1953 (another source: NavalSonar.pdf)

The ASQ-3A was used as the basis of an magnetic survey of the world.
Ref: Airborne Geomagnetic Surveys by the United States Hydrographic Office, Henry P. Stockard, USN Hydrographic Office, NAVIGATION, Journal of The Institute of Navigation, Vol. 4, No. 8, 1955, pp. 320-323. modified to use the Vector Airborne Magnetometer type 2A (VAM-2A)

NOL vector airborne magnetometer type 2A (VAM-2A)

The Pave Mace system that used the Black Crow MAD sensor was optimized to pickup the magnetic filed from ignition system in Vietnamese vehicles.  (link to external web page with photo of it).  The plate to the side of the dome with 3 rows of holes along the top and 3 more rows of holes on the bottom has the feel of a slot antenna for VHF or UHF signals, so more of a radio system than a MAD system.  If you have any definitive information let me know.
It's not clear if this is a magnetic system or a VHF/UHF radio system.
Jerry Proc: AN/ASQ-81 Magnetic Anomaly Detector - helium magnetometer

ASQ-8

The system weighs 150 pounds, occupies 7,700 Cu. In., is made up of 6 boxes, uses 44 vacuum tubes and requires 700 Watts of power (115VAC 400~ 3phase & 28VDC).  The ASQ-10 weighs 32 lbs., has a volume of 1,200 Cu. In., uses 16 Vacuum tubes and needs only 117 Watts of power. (from NAVPERS 10317-A)

MX-1361 Three Channel (X, Y, Z) Magnetic Sensor

YouTube: Magnetic anomaly detector - 3 orthogonal coils made by Texas Instruments p/n: 29604 - This is not the anomaly detector but rather the aircraft magnetic orientation sensor used to drive the X-Y movement of the DT-37 magnetometer.  See References below.

C820 Control Panel

Label on back:  C-820/ASQ-8, NOas 53-340, 439:CGO
Sticker on front panel: RCAF Inspection Due 0439?, 23/68, 7690-21-801-0255, RCAF S69
Labels above grommets: P1301 and P1302 and the cables have been cut off.
Changes 05 and 06 are scratched.

Side panel label: RCAF Instection Due, Batteries Installed 7 Dec 67, 7690-21-801-0255, RCAF S69.

There were internal batteries.  What voltages?

Fig 1 Front
ASQ-8 MAD C820
                    Control Panel
Fig 2 Back
ASQ-8 MAD C820
                    Control Panel
Fig 3 Inside top to right.
ASQ-8 MAD C820
                    Control Panel
Fig 4 Inside Maybe precision wire wound resistors at right side.
ASQ-8 MAD C820
                    Control Panel

17H-4 Gamma Slinger

Wiring:  A & B = AC input (Voltage TBD), C= ground.

Fig 1
ASQ-8-17H-4 Gamma Slinger
Fig 2  North pole near nut.
ASQ-8-17H-4 Gamma Slinger
Fig 3 Motor: Hurst, Princeton, M.D.
about 60mm diameter
ASQ-8-17H-4 Gamma Slinger

References

Aviation Electronics Technician 3 & 2, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Training Course, NAVPERS 10317-A,
Ch. 14 Magnetic airborne detection equipment.
Ch. 15 Airborne Sonar and Sonobuoys. - SSQ-2B sonobuoy contains an X-band or S-Band RADAR beacon receiver that effects the output frequency in the 162 to 174 Mc range.  This  is used as an aid in locating the sonobuoy.  I'm guessing to make them show up on the search RADAR is bright dots.
The data on the ASQ-10 in the below table is my best guess based on comments in NAVPERS 10317-A (page 401).

ASQ-8 System
                    diagram from NAVPERS 10317-A
System Components
/ASQ-8
Description
/ASQ-10
/ASQ-81
AM-294 Electronic Control Amplifier
AM-1967
AM-4535
PP-447 Power Supply
O-90
O-90A
Driver Magnetometer
CN-19 Magnetic Compensator
AM-295 Amplifier Detector
DT-37
Detecting Head (stinger)
DT-37B

RD-47
RD-47A
Recorder
RD-47
RD-47A
RO-32

SA-181
SA-181A
Switch Box
na

C-820
Detecting Set Control
C-2548

MX-1361
Coil Assembly
MX-1361


TR-218 The Influence of the Natural Enviornment on MAD Operations 1969 - The ASQ-10 will be followed by the ASQ-81 on the P-3 Orion.  The ASQ-81 uses an optical pump type magnetometer (Wiki) rather than the flux-gate type magnetometer used on the ASQ-8 and ASQ-10.
YouTube - Andrew Ochadlick: Optically Pumped Magnetometer Sensitivity and Helium-4 Energy Levels 2015 - Part1 (theory), Part 2 (ASQ-81 details), Part 3 (Uncertainty Principal) - very technical/physics. - Google Search "Princeton Lorentz Violation"

Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) Patents

Also see the MAD patents on the Flux Gate Patents web page.

GB130050 Improvements in Means for the Detection
                  and Location of Metallic Bodies, particularly
                  applicable to Detecting Submarines, Vannevar Bush
                  (Wiki), 1919-07-31
GB130050 Improvements in Means for the Detection and Location of Metallic Bodies, particularly applicable to Detecting Submarines, Vannevar Bush (Wiki), 1919-07-31, - 3-axis magnetic detector that can be manually turned on shaft.

2361177 Method and apparatus for the detection of submarines by airplanes. Constantin Chilowsky, Filed: 25 Apr 1941, Pub :24 Oct 1944, 367/120, 102/419, 244/137.1, 367/130, 102/427, 434/6 - Referenced by 35 patents - not MAD but rather audio
2406870 Apparatus for responding to magnetic
                  fields, Vacquier Victor V, Gulf Research Development
                  Co, filed: Jul 21, 1941, Pub: Sep 3, 1946
2406870 Apparatus for responding to magnetic fields, Vacquier Victor VGulf Research Development Co, filed: Jul 21, 1941, Pub: Sep 3, 1946, 324/253, 102/417, 33/361, 318/647, 324/326, 324/345, 324/255, 340/870.33, 102/427
This is THE MAD patent and is referenced by a very large number of others.

The following detectors are towed on a cable from a plane flying at 300 feet above the water:
2379447 Antisubmarine device, Lindsey Henry A D, Jul 3, 1945, 102/417, 102/212, 340/551, 324/247, 324/67, 307/652, 324/258, 340/552
2404806 Submarine detector, Lindsey Henry A D, Jul 30, 1946, 340/850, 102/402, 324/247, 324/331
2415808 Detection of large magentic bodies, Oliver E Buckley, Bell Labs, App: 1941-07-31, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1947-02-18, - "The invention is particularly applicable to the detection and location of submerged submarine or other vessels having hulls of magnetic material but it is applicable as well to the detection and location of other magnetic bodies, Such as large magnetic Ore deposits."
2424772 System for detecting magnetic masses, Frank Rieber, Interval Instr Inc, Jul 29, 1947, 324/247, 324/331, 322/1, 324/257, 322/59, 340/870.32
2485847 Combination magnetometer and gradiometer, Otto H Schmitt, Navy, App: 1944-09-23, (Secret?), Pub: 1949-10-25, 324/244; 340/870.33; 324/255 - two sensors in each wingtip, sum and difference outputs.
Cites 6 including:
2238072 Method and means for locating concealed bodies, Dale H Nelson, William D Buckingham,
Western Union Telegraph Co, 1941-04-15, 324/67; 102/406; 324/326; 324/243; 324/345; 405/173 - "...for locating and determining the depth to which a cable, or other body capable of afiecting, distorting and/or producing magnetic lines of force, is buried in the ground or otherwise concealed, and more particularly to locating and determining the depth to which submarine cables and the like are buried in the bed of the ocean or other body of water."
2549845 Ship's magnetic submarine detector, James C Mouzon, Edward S Lamar, Bardeen John, 1951-04-24, - big coils on surface ship to detect subs.
2549857
Cable-suspended aerodynamic body, Schonstedt Erick O, Apr 24, 1951, 324/260, 324/262, 114/24, 244/3, 74/5.00R, 324/331, 324/246, 33/397, 33/366.11
2555209 Method and apparatus for measuring the values of magnetic fields, Gary Muffly, Vacquier Victor V, Gulf Research Development Co, Filed: Nov 1, 1943, Pub: May 29, 1951, 324/246, 324/345, 324/253, - aligns MAD sensors with Earth's magnetic filed
2632884 Orienting mechanism for magnetic detector devices, Murphy Paul M, Mar 24, 1953, 324/253, 318/647, 324/246, 324/331
2696602 Compensated magnetometer, Richard Evans Chauncey, Dec 7, 1954, 324/253, 324/345 - uses term "magnetic anomalies"
3039559 Sound producing device, William M Ellsworth, Pneumo Dynamics Corp, 1962-06-19, - a couple of CO2 like pressure cartridges holding Hydrogen and Oxygen fill a rubber balloon which then is exploded producing water vapor which causes a strong implosion or cavitation.
3258687 Wide range linear fluxgate magnetometer, J.P. Heppner & H.R. Boroson, NASA, Jun 28 1966, - range 1 gamma to 10E-5 Gauss. 
3412371 Detection system, Arnold A Shostak, Navy, 1968-11-19, - magnetic micro pulsations
3530375 Aircraft magnetometer system with means to compensate said system for disturbing magnetic field generated by the aircraft, Fransiscus A Passier, Navy, 1970-09-22, -
3644825 Magnetic detection system for detecting movement of an object utilizing signals derived from two orthogonal pickup coils, Paul D Davis Jr, Thomas E Mccullough, Texas Instruments Inc, 1972-02-22 -
Cited by 133 patents.  - two coils allows determining direction of movement, like trucks along road - Outdoor Intrusion Detectors
3697869 System for generating compensating signals for magnetic effects of aircraft on mad system, Myron M Greenberg, Steven A Macintyre, Navy, 1972-10-10, -
------------------ Helium Magnetometer (Wiki) -------------
3577068 Optically pumped magnetic gradiometer, Richard C La Force, Atlantic Richfield, 1971-05-04, -
4546317 Free nuclear precession gradiometer system, George F. Hinton, Navy, 1985-10-08, -
4766385 Underwater buried mine classifier, Donald G. Polvani, Westinghouse (Northrop Grumman), 1988-08-23, -
5182514 Automatic compensator for an airborne magnetic anomaly detector, Joseph A. Rice, Jr.,  TI, App: 1974-11-19, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1993-01-26, - mentions it's for the AN/ASQ-81.

SONAR Countermeasures

Also see Torpedo Countermeasures (some are the same but some are different)

You see this in movies like The Hunt for Red October or Crimson Tide.  A small can is ejected from the sub and a stream of bubbles comes out of it.

2710458 Underwater acoustic decoy, Donald G Reed, App: 1945-06-14, W.W.II, Pub: 1955-06-14, - torpedo that sounds like a sub for training SONAR operators.
2901997
Sound generator, Arthur H Brooks, Sep 1, 1959 (14 year delay), 116/27, 116/137.00R, 102/418, 367/1 -  
2981927 Underwater sound transmitter See below
3180295 Submarine simulator, Niederer Otto Christopher, Navy, 1965-04-27, - a special torpedo with mag tape loop,
3194207 Underwater sound sources, Dunne Brian B, Gen Dynamics Corp, Jul 13, 1965, 116/27, 367/142 - electric motor driven noise maker + flotation device, cylindrical shape (torpedo tube or smaller?)  3771115 Simulated submarine target apparatus, McLinden Hugh   - a viscous, gelatinous  material having metalic particles suspended in it, is ejected by the sub to form a hollow bag-like structure which is filled with water.
3408621 Submarine tracking apparatus, Franklin A Dobson, Philco Ford (Space Systems Loral), App: 1961-02-14, cold war, Pub: 1968-10-29. - noise maker magnetically attached to sub. "NATO Designed Magnetic Noisemakers to Track Soviet Submarines. The Plan Failed." Book: Hunter Killers, by Iain Ballantyne (Ref 59)
3612211 Method of producing locally occurring infrasound, William T Clark, 1971-10-12, - maybe similar to the Holosonics (Wiki) system that uses ultrasonics to generate an audio sound.
3786405 System for low-frequency transmission of radiant energy, M Chramiec, W Konrad, Raytheon, 1974-01-15, - underwater sound generation
3872421 Standing wave acoustic parametric source, Peter H Rogers, Buren Arnie Lee Van, Navy, 1975-03-18, -
underwater sound generation
3891961 Sonar countermeasure, Rudolph M Haisfield, Navy, App: 1961-02-27, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1975-06-24, - phase shift with <1 Hz frequency difference. for submarines
3964013 Cavitating parametric underwater acoustic source, William L. Konrad, Navy, 1976-06-15, - bubbles provide for non-linear mixing
4183008 Noise making device, Ralph P. Crist, Navy, App: 1958-05-12, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1980-01-08, -
4194246
Noisemaker beacon, Ralph P. Crist, Secretary Of The Navy, Mar 18, 1980 (32 years delay=TOP SECRET), 367/1, 441/22, 441/12 - 10 to 100 kHz output
4214313 Multiple sonar masking and jamming countermeasure system, Keith E. Geren, Warren A. Sauer, Donald A. Young, Navy, Pub: 1961-04-27, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1980-07-22, - noise jamming for passive sonar over 5 to 70 kHz range and maybe (Wiki: Range gate pull-off, or Radar jamming and deception)
5117731
Tactical acoustic decoy, Mark A. Mendenhall, Secretary Of The Navy, Jun 2, 1992, 89/1.816, 102/348, 367/1, 102/501 - mounts on ship and jamms infrared, sonar & microwave.
5268875 Acoustic decoy, John D. Charlton, Navy, App: 1967-05-11, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1993-12-07, - contionous loop tape with multiple tracks with staggered heads.
6252822 Countermeasure device with air bag hover system and pressure compensated acoustic projectors, Robert J. ObaraSecretary Of The Navy, Jun 26, 2001, 367/1 - uses compressed air for both depth control and noise making   

Maybe called sonar counter counter measures was a type of sonar that was difficult for an enemy to hear. 
Maybe done using a pseudorandom sequence of frequencies called direct sequence spread spectrum when done with radio frequency signals.
5301166 Remote control command system, John D. Charlton, Navy, App: 1967-06-29, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1994-04-05, - applies to either radio or sonic signaling.

Sound Ranging

One meaning of Sound Ranging (Wiki) is to locate explosions (like a gun firing) beginning in W.W.I.  Based on measuring the differences in the time of arrival of the gunshot sound at multiple microphones. It's the nature of a gunshot that the sound only lasts for a fraction of a second.  There is not enough time to turn a bearing dial back and forth to determine the bearing so this equipment needs to work without a human in the loop.

Another meaning of Sound Ranging is to get the bearing on a source of sound.  This was done by the Navy using binaural headphones.  Based on human hearing being able to determine the direction of a sound.  This we the first form of passive SONAR.  The sound of a ship or submarine is continuous so there's time for a human to use their hearing to determine the bearing to the source of the sound.

1874196 Sound ranging system, Horatio W Lamson,
                  General Radio, 1932-08-30
1874196 Sound ranging system, Horatio W Lamson,
                  General Radio, 1932-08-30 1874196 Sound ranging system, Horatio W Lamson, General Radio, 1932-08-30, -
A pair of microphones (1 & 2) pick up sound.
A pair of delay lines ("lag" or "retardation" lines15 & 16) are tapped by movable coils (11 & 12) which when adjusted by the operator wearing binaural headphones (75 & 76) displays the bearing to the sound.

Since this is a time delay system it is also frequency independent. 
Very similar to the Fenwick time delay beam steering antenna patent.


1901342 Sound ranging system, Horatio W Lamson, General Radio,1933-03-14, - like 1874196 except has six microphones and delay lines.

Hydrophones

A hydrophone (Wiki) is the common sensor for sonobuoys and can be deployed at various depths.  A sonobuoy might have many depth settings that can be set prior to ejecting it from an aircraft.  This is important because of what's called the thermocline (Wiki) which is where the temperature of the water changes rapidly.  This changes the speed of sound (Wiki).  This causes the sound to change direction just as light will be bent by a change in refractive index (Wiki).  And just like light there's conditions where the bending acts like a mirror and all the sound (or light) is reflected off the layer instead of just changing angles.  So if the hydrophone is on the wrong side of the thermocline it may not hear a sub that's on the other side.  The key parameter is how the water temperature changes with depth which is measured by a Bathythermograph.

Arthur J. Mundy coined the term "hydrophone in the following patent:
793896 Submarine signal, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, 1905-07-04, - "The invention relates to that portion of a submarine signaling system which includes the means for taking the sound-signals conducted by the water from a submerged signaling apparatus from the water and transmitting them, preferably electrically, to a telephone receiver on a vessel. This portion of the apparatus as a whole I have named a 'hydrophone.” The part of the hydrophone which is immersed in the water and receives sound impulses from it and transmits them I term the "hydrophone-transmitter,” or, for short, the 'transmitter.” The part which receives the impulses from the transmitter and delivers the sound to the hearer I call the 'hydrophone-receiver," or for short, the "receiver."

See the  SSQ-53A\Audio Analysis web page for the analysis of the sounds from hydrophones.

YouTube: PeriscopeFilm: Sounds in the Silent Deep Hydrophones Underwater Sound Documentary, Moody Institute of Science, Educational Film Division, "Sounds in the Silent Deep", 27:13, @4:33 underwater Disk microphone, @5:35 Hydrophone, 5:56 SONAR, @9:50 URI study marine animal sounds (Vibralyzer, I can not read patent number, Kay Electric Co. may be the same as Ohmega Lab), The Analysis of Bird Songs by means of a Vibralyzer; Kay 3090-A Vibralyzer - see SSQ-53A\Audio Analysis

1803257 = RE20680 Piezoelectric device, Charles B. Sawyer, Brush Development Co, 1938-03-29, -
2222056 Piezoelectric device, Alfred L W Williams, Brush Development Co, 1940-11-19, - lollypop shape
2353089 Transducer, Harry B Shapiro, Brush Development Co, App: 1942-03-26, W.W.II, Pub: 1944-07-04, -
2405472 Diaphragm, Tuttle William Norris, General Radio, App: 1934-06-12, Top Secret, Pub: 1946-08-06, -
2589403 Transducer construction and method, Franz N D Kurie, Navy, App: 1943-12-14, Pub: 1952-03-18, - bonding Rochelle salt to metal with min. capacitane and good mechanical coupling.
2594948 Electromechanical transducer unit, Thomas E Lynch, Brush Development Co, 1952-04-29, - crystal encased in petroleum jelly for use in photograph pickup
2602836 Instantaneous (audio) frequency analyzer, Harry R Foster, Elmo E Crump, Ohmega Lab, 1952-07-08, 324/76.29; 704/276; 324/76.19; 324/76.68; 324/76.44 - Vibralyzer?
2615078 Frequency analyzer system, Harry R Foster, Elmo E Crump, Ohmega Lab,1952-10-21, 324/76.19; 101/DIG.37; 346/33R; 704/205; 360/137; 324/76.13 - Vibralyzer? Sonogram (Wiki: Spectrogram)
2774035 Magnetostrictive frequency analysers, Martin R Richmond, Blitz Daniel, Raytheon, 1956-12-11, - maybe for ground based radar
3803546 Broad band hydrophone, R Leon, Navy, 1974-04-09, - 4 elements, 30 to 1000 Hz, 
3903497 Opto-acoustic hydrophone, Morton Stimler, Zaka I Slawsky, Navy, 1975-09-02

A hydrophone (Wiki) is an underwater sound sensor.  On purpose I did not call it some type of microphone because that would imply it can only respond to sound within the frequency band which human ears can hear.  So, I think, sensor (Wiki) or transducer (Wiki) are better terms to use.  The key reason for that is most SONAR (Wiki) involves ultrasonic frequencies.

An early piezo electric material used for  hydrophones was Rochelle Salt (Wiki) which can be made from ingredients from the grocery store using instructions from YouTube.  Since it's water based, getting water on the crystal will dissolve it, so maybe not idea for an underwater application. Barium Titanate (Wiki) is another piezoelectric (Wiki) material used for hydrophones.  Although know in the W.W.II time frame, Titanium was not readily available in war time, so Magnetostriction (Wiki) was used for hydrophones early in W.W.II, like used on the CRT-1 sonobuoy.
See my Magnetics web page for an example of Terfenol-D material.

Got this hydrophone from Fair Radio.  It consists of a bladder just under five feet long and about three inches in diameter filled with mineral oil (or something similar).  Inside there are eight cylindrical  Rochelle Salt Crystal doublets, each about three inches long with about a three inch gap between sensors (series or parallel connection?). 

In the Combat Information Center magazine for July 1944 (Vol. 1 No. 5) there's an article on harbor defense that mentions both a sonobuoy with vertical hydrophone array (radio has 12 mile range and hydrophone has 1,000 yard range) as well as multiple hydrophones laid on the bottom and connected to multi-conductor cable.

At the cable end of the hydrophone is a matching transformer with 25 Ohm output impedance.  Frequency response of 1Hz to 20 kHz (i.e. young human hearing range).
The internal construction seems to be steel cylinders spot welded to two steel rods that tie them toghther.  The crystals are glued into the cylinders and wired in parallel.
If buried in the ground as is the mineral oil will leak out leaving air voids.  If repackaged in a PVC pipe the sound would travel up and down the pipe wall which doesn't happen with the current rubber bladder.  So maybe some type of flexable hose would be a good replacement? 

The idea is to bury it and have excellent low frequency (below 20 Hz) response.  The Infra sound sensors use garden hose with a pin hole leak.

Official Description:
Hydrophone, U. S. Navy Harbor Detection, Sonic, NT-51038F; P/O type JR-1 Harbor Detection Equipment.

Sensitive listening, frequency range 1 - 20 thousand cycles per second; with 8 Rochelle Salt Crystal Doublets each approx. 3" x 2" x 1", in metal frame w/matching transformer to 25 ohm line, in Castor (?) Oil, encased by heavy rubber jacket 56" long x 2 1/2" in diameter; with 9 foot rubber covered cable 1/2" O.D. w/2 flexible copper wires insulated, plus 2 steel strain wires; to be used down to 400ft. depth while withstanding high pressure explosion waves.  Mfg by Brush Development Company.
How can the transformer work over that frequency range? 

3 Feb 2012 - When the 999 average spectrum plot finishes I'll have a look at the impedance.

Fig HP1
Hydrophone, U.
                  S. Navy Harbor Detection, Sonic, NT-51038F; P/O type
                  JR-1 Harbor Detection Equipment.
Fig HP2 Transformer
Hydrophone,
                  U. S. Navy Harbor Detection, Sonic, NT-51038F; P/O
                  type JR-1 Harbor Detection Equipment - Transformer


White
Red
Black
Green
Blue
Case Ground
White  -
Opn
Opn
 Opn
 Opn

Red
-
-
 Opn  Opn  Sht

Black
-
-
-
Sht
Opn 

Green
-
-
-
-
 Opn

Blue
-
-
-
-
-
The Red and Blue terminals are physically in line.
The Black and Green terminals are physically in line.
The White wire is not an electrical connection but rather is where a couple of steel cables attach for supporting the weight of the hydrophone.
It's not clear what this is.
HP 4395A Plot 1 Hz to 20 kHz RBW: 1 Hz, True RMS detection, 16 averages:
8 Crystal
                Hydrophone spectrum 1 Hz to 20 kHz into 50 Ohm HP 4395A
HP 4395A Plot 1Hz to 20 kHz RBW: 1 Hz, True RMS detection, 999 averages (54.6 hours):
HP 4395A
                Plot 0 to 20 kHz RBW: 1 Hz, True RMS detection, 999
                averages (54.6 hours)
HP 4395A Z transform Impedance Real & Imaginary
HP 4395A Z
                transform Hydrophone Impedance Real & Imaginary
HP 4395A Z transform Hydrophone Impedance Smith Chart with Marker List (It's a 50 Ohm device!)
HP 4395A Z
                transform Hydrophone Impedance Smith Chart with Marker
                List

Hydrophone Patents

The Submarine Signal Company (Wiki) developed the first hydrophones.  They received a block of patents all with the same application and publication dates.
The idea was to ring a bell under water and hear that sound with an underwater microphone.
Note in Telephone technology by 1889 the Carbon Mike had replaced Bell's dynamic mike and the Long Pole receiver was the cat's meow.
768567 Fig 1 Underwater Bell
768567 Submarine signaling, Arthur J Mundy,
                  Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23
768567 Fig 2
Telephone transmitter and receiver
768567 Submarine signaling, Arthur J Mundy,
                  Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23


Here's the block of 7 patents all granted on the same date with sequential numbers:
768567 Submarine signaling, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768568 Sound transmitter and receiver, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768569 Telephone-transmitter, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768570 Sound transmitter and receiver, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768571 Sound transmitter and receiver, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768572 Sound transmitter and receiver, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
768573 Submarine sound-direction finder, Arthur J Mundy, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1902-04-23, Pub: 1904-08-23, -
------------------------ end of Submarine Signal Co block of hydrophone patents -----------------------

1378960 Method of and apparatus for detecting
                  under-water vibrations, Warren Horton Joseph, Western
                  Electric 1921-05-24
1378960 Method of and apparatus for detecting under-water vibrations, Warren Horton Joseph, Western Electric 1921-05-24, -
1381640 Detecting underwater vibrations, Warren
                  Horton Joseph, Western Electric 1921-06-14
1381640 Detecting underwater vibrations, Warren Horton Joseph, Western Electric, 1921-06-14, -

Carbon microphones 7 & 8 or 7 & 9 are fed to the telephone receivers 11 and 16 and can be used to get a rough bearing to the source of sound.


1624412 Submarine signaling, Joseph W Horton,
                  Western Electric, Filed: 1919-10-31
1624412 Submarine signaling, Joseph W Horton, Western Electric, Filed: 1919-10-31, W.W.I TOP SECRET, Pub: 1927-04-12, -
Fig 1: Carbon mike
Fig 2: Dynamic mike
Fig 3: Dynamic mike (to be used with an amplifier)
1576459 Electric retardation line, George W
                  Pierce, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1921-12-24
1576459 Electric retardation line, George W Pierce, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1921-12-24, Pub: 1926-03-09, -

"The present invention relates to electric retardation lines, and more particularly to a retardation line for introducing definite time retardation of electric currents in a manner such that currents of a complex character will be retarded in a rational and predeterminable way, with out essential distortion, over a significant range of frequencies. The present invention results in a considerable extension over previous retardation lines the range of frequencies for which the retardation time is independent of frequency."  - This is a very important point.  "The present invention, however, is not limited to the application of the retardation line herein disclosed, to an electric compensator, ..."

I wonder if coax transmission lines were know then?  Ans:  Yes (Wiki)

The Fenwick 1977 antenna patent is based on Time Delay Beam Steering where the lobes are frequency independent.  Yet there are still many "phased array" antenna systems where the main lobe modes with any change in frequency, probably because they are much lower in cost to make.

1682712
                          Electric compensator, George W Pierce,
                          Submarine Signal Co, App: 1919-06-25
1682712
                          Electric compensator, George W Pierce,
                          Submarine Signal Co, App: 1919-06-25

1682712 Electric compensator, George W Pierce, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1919-06-25, Pub: 1928-08-28, -

Although there is a "steering wheel" used to point the SONAR beam, it is just an electrical switch, there is no mechanical connection to a moving SONAR array.

For the switching scheme shown in Fig 2 to work the array needs to be self similar, like a cylinder where the elements are straight lines.

This is analogous to the motor driven Geionometer used on the receive only Wullenweber antenna array (Wiki).  Since it dates from early in W.W.II the sound based patents shown here predated it.
1893741 Arrangement for directional transmission
                  and reception with a plurality of oscillators, Hecht
                  Heinrich, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH, Priority:
                  1928-01-14
1893741 Arrangement for directional transmission and reception with a plurality of oscillators, Hecht Heinrich, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH, Priority: 1928-01-14, Pub: 1933-01-10, -


Fig 4 placement on the bottom of the sea (or on the bottom of a harbor).

1969005 Apparatus for the directional transmission and reception of wave energy, Hecht Heinrich, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH, 1934-08-07, -

1997974 Apparatus for the directional transmission or reception of wave energy, Rudolph Wilhelm, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH, 1934-10-23, -
1995708 Electrical compensator for the
                  directional transmission or reception of wave energy,
                  Fischer Fritz Alexander, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH,
                  App: 1929-11-21
1995708 Electrical compensator for the directional transmission or reception of wave energy, Fischer Fritz Alexander, ELAC Electroacustic GmbH, App: 1929-11-21, Pub: 1935-03-26, -



2473974 Underwater sound detecting and indicating system, Schuck Oscar Hugo, Navy, App: 1944-05-18, W.W.II, Pub: 1949-06-21, - Hugo has a number of SONAR patents.
Omni-directional 14 kHz transmit but rotating directional receive beam.  Spiral scan on CRT.

2582994 Underwater microphone, James M Kendall, Geophysical Research Corp, Priority: 1943-06-04, W.W.II, Pub: 1952-01-22, -
2592738 Electronically controlled low impedance
                  phase shifting device, Stanley R Rich, Navy, App:
                  1945-09-19
2592738 Electronically controlled low impedance phase shifting device, Stanley R Rich, Navy, App: 1945-09-19, Pub: 1952-04-15, -

The U.S. BQR-2 & BQS-4 SONAR domes are a based on the 1929 German compensator.
The use of "phase shift" networks is a problem in that the pattern is a function of frequency.  Much better to use time delay which can be frequency independent.

2597005 Method of calibrating microphones, James M Kendall, Geophysical Research Corp, Priority: 1943-06-04, W.W. II, Pub: 1952-05-20, -
also see patent 2582994 Underwater microphone,

2684449 Commutator tube, Stanley R Rich, Jr Edwin E Turner, Raytheon, App: 1946-03-19, Pub: 1954-07-20, - for use with the SONAR system of patent 2786193 below.
2703396 Underwater echo range and bearing
                  apparatus, Stanley R Rich, Navy, App: 1944-11-11
2703396 Underwater echo range and bearing apparatus, Stanley R Rich, Navy, App: 1944-11-11, TOP SECRET, Pub: 1955-03-01, - The key benefit it reduced time to make a 360 degree search.

Fig 1. TVG = Time Varied Gain.  Scope shows spiral pattern. Also see: SSQ-53A Audio Analysis Patents 2418846 where the Tx and Rx elements rotate at different speeds.
Fig 3 thin Nickel laminations with coil.

BQR-2 and/or BQS-4 SONAR?

2786193 Underwater sound system, Stanley R Rich, Raytheon, App: 1948-03-10, Pub: 1957-03-19, - no mechanical moving parts.  Uses commutator tube patent 2684449 above.


2138036 Compressional wave sender or receiver, Kunze Willy, Submarine Signal Co, 1938-11-29, - Quartz crystal, Rochelle-salt,   cited by34 patents
2616223 Device for converting electrical energy into mechanical oscillation energy, Jonker Gerard Heinrich, 1952-11-04, - cited by 23 patents.
2631271
Tubular hydrophone, A.L. Thuras (New London, CT),  Sec of Navy, Mar 10, 1953, 367/168 -  CRT-1 
2973739 Underwater transducer, Nelson N Estes, 1961-03-07, -
for actuating thereby acoustically sensitive mines or the like submerged therein.
3255431 Hydrophone, Glenn N Howatt, Gulton Ind, 1966-06-07, -
piezoelectric - looks like a lolly-pop
3266011 Hydrophone, Massa Frank, Dynamics Corp of America, 1966-08-09, - low cost for sonobuoy
3659255 Hydrophone calibrator, Winfield James Trott, 1972-04-25, - 1 Hz to 5 kHz,  a pair of piezo electric cylinders in a pressure vessel. uses static pressure change for calibration.
4965778
Helical magnetostrictive core line hydrophone, David E. Parker, Markay Malootian, Secretary Of The Navy, Oct 23, 1990 (21 year delay), 367/168 -   

Brush Development Co. Patents

Their early work with Piezoelectric devices (Wiki) was for microphones and speakers used in air.  But this was long after the Germans, see SSQ-53A Ref 18.

1906758 Crystal and method of producing the same, Kjellgren Bengt, Brush Dev Co, May 2, 1933, 117/69, 117/68, 117/926, 252/1, 562/580 - Rochelle salt - but the methods seem the same as used today for silicon or any other crystal.
2105010 Piezoelectric device, Baldwin Sawyer Charles, Brush Dev Co, Jan 11, 1938, 381/190, 310/331, 367/164, 601/2, 367/161, 381/173 - Rochelle salt disk or plate or stacks or grids of them, mike or speaker
2126437 Apparatus for generating electrical waves - tubes
2269403 Piezoelectric unit - loudspeaker for use in air (for similar loudspeaker see: LS-685/U Crystal Loudspeaker)
2413462 Transducer, Massa Frank, Brush Dev Co, Filed: Jul 30, 1942, Pub: Dec 31, 1946, 367/157, 310/340, 381/190, 310/337, 310/362, 367/163 - early hydrophone (no projector function)  
2440903 Underwater transducer, Massa Frank, Brush Dev Co, Filed: Jan 6, 1944, Pub: May 4, 1948, 367/160, 381/190, 381/163 - "piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducer devices adapted to function underwater either as a microphone or as a loudspeaker."  38 patents reference this one     
3418624 Coaxially mounted line hydrophone, Frank Massa, Dynamics Corp of America, 1968-12-24, - 
3489994 Line hydrophone, Frank Massa, Dynamics Corp of America, 1970-01-13, - 

Seismometer

The geophones used in Vietnam era outdoor intrusion detectors are functionally seismometersHydrophones with good low frequency response can also be used as seismometers.  The MERMAID (Mobile Earthquake Recording in Marine Areas by Independent Divers - Earth Scope Oceans) devices drift at a depth of about 1500 feet to a mile and when they "hear" a P-wave (Wiki) they surface, get GPS coordinates and use the Iridium satellite telephone system to phone in the event.  The hydrophone output has a 0.1 Hz high pass filter and is sampled at a 40 Hz rate.  Note P-waves are very useful for studying the interior structure of the Earth.  They are the first (Primary) wave from an earthquake to reach a given location and so are the basis of earthquake alarms (Seismometer)

Son-Of-MERMAID (A tale about MERMAIDs) is also an ocean hydrophone that works more like a sonobuoy.  That's to say there's a float with GPS that knows where it is and a 1,000 meter cable supports a hydrophone.  An on board recorder captures events that appear to be P-wave events.

Note that this system does not detect S-waves (Wiki) and so is lacking a lot of earthquake data, but it is a way to get some data that covers 3/4 of the Earth (i.e. the oceans where there is currently no data at all on earthquakes). 

Hazeltine Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly A22267-1

Found this on eBay but the photos and description were not at all clear.  It's a linear array of 6 hydrophones.

Let me know if  you have any information on this hydrophone assembly.

Box label (Fig 1):
Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly
1 ea.
NOAS 58-548C
Hazeltine Corp Mfg/Contr
A22267-1
A-IA-8X-6/60
Sub-Item 5
Sensitivity Minus _____ db
6 EL SH HYD
(6 ELement Small Hydrophone HYDrophone?)

Cable can: 4" dia x 5-3/8" high
This is smaller than an A Size sonobuoy (4-7/8").
Maybe fits inside an A-Size?

Hydro Cup: 2" OD x 5" high
Cup holds 5 hydrophones + cup-end hydrophone
for 6 total.

Fig 1 OEM Box
Hazeltine Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly
                  A22267-1
Fig 2 unknown total cable length.
No depth option, always the same.
Hazeltine Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly
                  A22267-1
Fig 3 latch mechanism (not clear how it works)
Hazeltine Hydrophone and Retainer Assembly
                  A22267-1
Looking for Hazeltine patent that might cover this, no luck, but maybe related ideas like lines of hydrophones.
5132940 Current source preamplifier for hydrophone beamforming,  James A. Culbert, Hazeltine Corp, 1992-07-21 - listening buoys
2891232 Hydrophone for directional listening buoy, Heinrich O Benecke, 1959-06-16 -
2898589 Hemispherical acoustic phase compensator, Abbott Frank Riley, 1959-08-04 - makes use of a miniature replica
3037185 Sonar apparatus and components, Gerhard H Dewitz, Cgs Lab Inc, 1962-05-29 - "In one embodiment of this invention, which will be described presently, a scanning system is provided which does not depend upon mechanically moving parts for controlling the direction of the transmitted beam or the direction of greatest sensitivity of the receiving apparatus, and which permits continuous high speed scanning over any desired area." i.e. beamforming
3064235 Audible broadband sonar monitor, Keith E Geren, 1962-11-13 - a broadband ( kHz to 100 kHz) hydrophone driven receiver with special signal processing for hearing "single ping" sonar at an unknown frequency
3116471 Radio sonobuoy system, Jesse J Coop, 1963-12-31 - directional sound receiving beam coupled with magnetic compass do give directional information DIFAR
3281769 Transducer apparatus, Theodor F Hueter, Honeywell Inc, 1966-10-25 - probably for underwater locator beacon since "for use at extreme depths."
3559160 Spatial surveying and target detection system, Bradshaw Burnham, US Secretary of Navy, Filed: 1963-11-07, Pub: 1971-01-26 "10,000 hydrophones", tubes SOSUS?
3903407 Method for correlating frequency-modulated signals, Bradshaw Burnham, US Secretary of Navy, Filed: 1963-12-11, Pub: 1975-09-02 - photo-optical, SOSUS?
3905320 Low frequency homing system, William J Mueller, US Secretary of Navy, 1975-09-16 - homing system for torpedoes "The low frequency homing system of this invention utilizes lines of hydrophones or transducers spaced along the port and starboard sides, and along the top and bottom sides of a torpedo."
2409632 Guiding means for self-propelled torpedoes, Robert W King, AT&T Corp, 1946-10-22 - active ultrasonic SONAR
4423494 Beam steerable sonar array, Kenneth W. Groves, John D. Lea, Sperry Corp, 1983-12-27 -
6088299 Vertical hydrophone array, Louis W. Erath, Phillip Sam Bull, Syntron Inc, 2000-07-11 -  seismic exploration cable includes time delay elements: "traveling wave antenna"

Roswell Connection

While studying the MH370 disappearance and search (March - April 2014) and in particular the 37.5 kHz ultrasonic pings from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (Wiki: CVR) and the Flight Data Recorder (Wiki: FDR) generated by the Underwater Locator Beacon (Wiki: ULB, Ultrasonics).  This lead to the SOFAR channel (Wiki) and the thermocline (Wiki).  A way to determine the depth of the thermocline is to drop an SSQ-36 (see SSQ-36) or other Bathythermograph such as the SSXBT (Wiki: BT).  Note that the maximum depth of the SSQ-36 is 800 meters, not the center of the SOFAR channel which might be at 1000 meters, but low enough to be in the channel. 

2587301 Method of sound transmission, Ewing William M, (Wiki), Us Navy, Filed: Nov 16, 1945 (7 year delay), Pub: Feb 26, 1952, 67/127 - "sound channel" , Fig 7 map showing listening staations: Aleutian Islands, Kurie Islands, Marinas, Saipan Islands & Midway.  Explosion set for 675 fathoms.
2601245 Underwater signaling device, Charles F Bowersett, Filed: Jan 30, 1948, Pub: Jun 24, 1952, 181/142, 102/229, 181/125 -  contains explosives 
2760180
Long range explosive sonobuoy, George Sipkin, Filed: Oct 6, 1949, (7 year delay), Pub: Aug 21, 1956, - explains sound channel - It's a buoy with a hydrophone and when it hears a ship it drops an explosive set to go off in the SOFAR channel.  Shore based hydrophones hear the explosion and can triangulate the location of the explosion.  A 10,000 mile range is expected.  This sounds like the same system of shore stations described for the SOFAR bombs.
3517378 Underwater long-distance sound-detection system, Robert E Barrett, Navy, App: 1959-11-06, SECRET, Pub: 1970-06-23, - probably SOSUS (Crypto, Wiki) related - transducer at about 2,000 feet deep detects sub. A relay transducet at 4,000 feet deep (in the sound channel) relays the sub detection to a shore station.

3483837 Streamlined missile device for location of submarines, Robert E Peterson, 1969-12-16, - a streamlined missile attaches to a sub using a magnet.  A switch closed and a signal between 16 kHz and 24 kHz indicates the depth.
Cites:

297648 Marine Torpedo, J.H.L. Tuck, Submarine Monitor Co, 1884-04-29, - ?

1300062 Submarine signaling device, George H Walker, 1919-04-08, - electromagnets attach to sub and roll along it activating switches to signal contact

1460175 Torpedo head, Joseph A Rayder, 1923-06-26, - switch in nose to set of explosives.

2397995 Submarine detector, Wikstrom Arne, App: 1943-03-24, W.W.II, Pub: 1946-04-09, - strong magnet attaches to sub which then signals an attachment

2405990 Spotting submarines, John T Beechlyn, Submarine Signal Co, App: 1943-05-22, W.W. II, Pub: 1946-08-20, - a slavo is fired off the bow of a ship, when they hit a sub a buoy is released and it jumps out of the water.

2545179 Submarine marker with sonic signal generators, Voorhees Vanderveer, Standard Oil Co, 1951-03-13, - underwater benchmark consisting of a heavy housing, batteries and a vibrator.

2656458 Compressional wave telemetering device, Joseph M Johnston, Joseph B Olsen, John A Moulden, 1953-10-20, - Helmholtz Resonator with diaphragm which by capacity change FM modulates a radiosonde transmitter.  The resonator can be tuned to a low (not specified) frequency.

2750794 Acoustisonde apparatus for measuring and recording physical properties of the sea, George W Downs, Navy, 1956-06-19, - "...conditions of the sea such as pressure, temperature, turbidity, salinity, and radioactivity are detected by submerged apparatus and transmitted as sound through the water to receiving and recording apparatus at the surface thereof.
Cited by:
4448106 Method of identifying hard targets, Richard D. Knapp, McDonnell Douglas Corp, 1984-05-15, -

It turns out that a stock sonobuoy can not hear the 37.5 kHz ULB since the highest frequency they can hear is 20 kHz (see DIFAR above).  So a stock sonobuoy can not be used to find the CVR or FDR.  But all the information about sound propagation in water is applicable to normal sonobuoy operation.

Note that military passive SONAR (Wiki) is designed to pick up the sounds generated by surface ships, submarines and torpedos (maybe 10 Hz to 20 kHz), not aircraft black boxes at 37 kHz.  This frequency range does include a lot of sea life so a sonar man needs to know what they sound like, or his computer knows.   If you rub your thumb and index fingers together you generate an ultrasonic sound, like that used by Bats, in the 30 kHz region but no normal audio.

Maurice Ewing (Wiki) who discovered the SOFAR channel (Wiki) figured out that the speed of sound vs. depth would cause sound to be "piped" if it was in the SOFAR channel rather than being omnidirectional if not in the channel.  He extrapolated that idea to the atmosphere where the speed of sound vs altitude curve has the same shape as the one for speed of sound vs depth in water and so there should also be an atmospheric channel ( it turned out to be at about 50,000 feet whereas the ocean channel is at about 1000 meters deep).  By putting microphones (in the 1940s the state of the art microphone technology was the Disk Microphone (used by Orson Wells - Wiki), or disk for short like we now say radio instead of Radio Receiver) in the channel you can hear sounds from very very far away that you can not hear any other way.  Disk microphones are called "spring microphones" on eBay.  For example rocket launches or atomic bomb testing.
Richard Muller Physics Lecture 11 - Waves 1  (Richard A. Muller - Sound Channel)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Ask an Expert: The Roswell Incident, Apr 22, 2011 -

Wiki: Sofar bomb - Naval Airborne Ordnance NAVPERS 10826-A (Aircraft Reference book 17) describes the SOFAR bomb on pages 195 & 196 as "a 4-pound cylinder casing carrying the explosive, and a head which enables the operator to select one of the six possible depth settings between 1,500 and 4,000 feet."  There is a Pacific ocean map showing receiving stations at Point Arena and Point Sur on the California coast and at Kaneone in the Hawaiian islands.

In the book Principles of Underwater Sound by Robert J. Urick (Reference 10) there is an example of the SOFAR bomb on page 415.
Communication
Problem: In the sofar method of aviation rescue, a downed aviator drops a 4-lb explosive charge set to detonate on the axis of the deep sound channel.  How far away can the detonation be heard by a nondirectional hydrophone, also located on the axis of the deep sound channel, at a location of moderate shipping in sea state 3?

Solution: (detailed description of calculation) 4,000 miles.
Then I watched the UC Berkeley Physics 10 - Lecture 11: - Waves I (YouTube, Text)  by Richard Muller (Amazon).  It turns out that the Project Mogul (Wiki 1947 - 1949) used the bulk of a CRT-1 sonobuoy.  They replaced the hydrophone with a string of "Disk Microphones" that was 657 feel long.  He also mentions SOSUS and "Hunt for Red October" in passing.  The SOFAR bomb was used by W.W. II pilots downed in the ocean.  They would throw this hollow metal sphere (SOFAR bomb aka: SOFAR Sphere (Wiki)) into the water and it would sink.  After about 5 minutes it would reach about 1000 meters depth and implode.  The implosion had the energy of about 2 pounds of TNT.  The shore based SOFAR stations would note the time of arrival and triangulate the location of the implosion.  Later the Signals (underwater sound) Mk 22 Mods 0 and 1 were developed to work with the shore stations.  If an enemy captured one of these SOFAR bombs and cut it open it would be very unlikely that they could determine what it was or how it was used.

When Project Mogul flight No. 4 crashed outside Roswell the Air Force reported that "flying disks had been recovered" from the wreakage, but the local paper reported it as a "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer".  Note the change from plural because there were a large number of disk microphones to singular Flying Saucer".
See my Western Electric 387W Disk Microphone web page for an example of a disk microphone.  Note eBay search term "Spring Microphone".
The Wiki page Roswell_UFO_incident - has an image from the Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947. The main headline is: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region".  The subheading is "No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed". 

The problem I have with the "flying disk" idea is that those spring microphones are extremely heavy and because of that would never be flown below a balloon.  So either there is some unknown to me "disk microphone" or another explanation for "flying disks".

The Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947 (roswelldailyrecord9jul1947.jpg):
Harassed Rancher who Located 'saucer' Sorry He Told About It
W. W. Brazel, 48, Lincoln county rancher living 30 miles south east of Corona, today told his story of finding what the army at first described as a flying disk, but the publicity which attended his find caused him to add that if he ever found anything else short of a bomb he sure wasn't going to say anything about it.

Brazel was brought there late yesterday by W.E. Witmore, of radio station KGFL, had his picture taken and gave an interview to the Record and Jason Kellahin, sent here from the Albuquerque bureau of the Associated Press to cover the story.  The picture he possed for was sent out over AP telephone wire sending machine specially set up in the Record office by R.D. Adir, AP wire chief sent here from Albuqueruue for the sole purpose of getting out his picture and that of sheriff George Wilcox, to whom Brazel originally gave the information of his find.

Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 9-year old son, Vernon were about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J.B. Foster rance, which he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.

At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round madea nd he did not pay much attention to it.  But he did remark about what he had seen and on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon, and a daughter Betty, age 14, went back to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.

The next day he first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered if what he had found might be the remnants of one of these.

Monday he came to town to sell some wool and while here he went to see sheriff George Wilcox and "whispered kinda confidential like" that he might have found a flying disk.

Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where they picked up the rest of the pieces of the "disk" and went to his home to try to reconstruct it.

According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all. They tried to make a kite out of it, but could not do that and could not find any way to put it back together so that it would fit.

Then Major Marcel brought it to Roswell and that was the last he heard of it until the story broke that he had found a flying disk.

Brazel said that he did not see it fall from the sky and did not see it before it was torn up, so he did not know the size or shape it might have been, but he thought it might have been about as large as a table top. The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been about 12 feet long, he felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter.

When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. (See: Radar Reflectors)

There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although there were letters on some of the parts. Considerable scotch tape and some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the construction.

No strings or wire were to be found but there were some eyelets in the paper to indicate that some sort of attachment may have been used.

Brazel said that he had previously found two weather balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any way resemble either of these.

"I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he said. "But if I find anything else besides a bomb they are going to have a hard time getting me to say anything about it.

This web page was started because of the connection to Vietnam era seismic detectors (outdoor intrusion alarms).  But I still have not determined which sonobuoy was the source for the 2-3/4" diameter cylindrical components of the GSQ-160, if you know please tell me.

In the official Air Force book "The Roswell Report - Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert - Headquarters United States Air Force - 1995 - ISBN 0-16-048023-X (free on line as roswell.pdf) - 993 pages see attachment 32, "Report of Findings on Balloon Research", chapter Project MOGUL, pdf-Pg 303 that describes the underwater sound channel and the idea by Dr. Maurice Ewing (Wiki) that there might also be a sound channel in the atmosphere and how to exploit that idea as Project Mogul (Wiki).

A Google Patents search on inassignee:"Gen Mills Inc" balloon will turn up many patents related to the new type balloon good for high altitude
2526719 Balloon construction, Winzen Otto C, Gen Mills Inc, Apr 2, 1948 - key is replacing rubberized fabric with polyethylene (Wiki)
2492800 Fast rising sounding balloon, Isom Langley W, Aug 16, 1948 - key non elastic material.
2767940 Balloon with strengthening elements, Donald F Melton, General Mills Inc, Filed: 1953-11-04 -
2767941 Seam for gored balloons, Frederick J Gegner, Alan A Reid, General Mills Inc, Filed: 1953-11-04 -

In the book An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment (Ref 4) they mention that the sound channel in the Atlantic ocean is 4,000 feet but in the Pacific it's at 2,500 feet. (page 173).

June 2018: In the book UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth edited by Benson Saler - There is a chapter on the ML-307 Radar Reflector.

The Project Mogul balloon flights (Wiki) are described as being run as an unclassified program to develop constant altitude balloons, not the actual flights with disk microphones. 
Project Genetrix (Wiki) balloons carried 600 lb. cameras. Ran 1955 to 1958.
2666601 Constant altitude balloon, William F Huch, General Mills Inc, Filed: 1952-02-15, Pub: 1954-01-19
2606443 Exploration of troposphere stratification, George W Gilman, Bell Labs, Filed: 1946-06-14 - shows existence of sound channel, although not called that
3070335 Automatic lift augmentation for balloons , Leland S Bohl, William F Huch, Edward P Ney, John R Winckler, Secretary of the Navy, Filed: 1959-08-04, Pub:
1962-12-25 - has the feel of Skyhook balloon (Wiki) flies at 100,000' (harder to shoot down)
3369774 Balloon envelope structure, Jr Arthur D Struble, Filed: 1961-08-02 -

also see: Radiosonde and New UFO Information April 2014

2021 Sep
- While learning about the equipment used to receive and process the DIFAR signal from the SQQ-53A sonobuoy, which it turns out is almost if not totally identical to a passive sonar, I started looking into passive and active SONAR (Wiki).  I hit a roadblock.  Even the Wiki SONAR web page shows neither the frequency v. time waterfall display nor the bearing angle v. time waterfall display not any of the waterfall displays that combine those two.

Also there are two very different frequency bands.  Classic active SONAR uses a "ping" frequency that's in the audio range since very high power levels are needed for long range.  This is analogous to RADAR where the units designed for search use lower frequencies (Wiki: SURTASS) and units designed for tracking or homing use higher frequencies because smaller antennas work better at higher frequencies.  What's called "broadband SONAR" operates at ultrasonic frequencies.  So on a sub there's the classical SONAR operator and the Broadband SONAR operator.

When the MH370 went down Sonobuoys could not be used to hear the ELB ping at 37.5 kHz because that's above the frequency range of classical SONAR and above the sonobuoy frequency range.  But I'm guessing that a submarine could hear the ULB ping if they were close enough on the Broadband SONAR.  For example see the projects at Extreme SONAR. 1 to 470 kHz passive SONAR,  Projects at In-Depth Engineering: BLQ-10, BQQ-10, SQQ-89

Processing of Data from SONAR Systems, Vol III, Morton Kanefsky, Allen Levesque, Peter Schultheiss & Franz Tuteur, of Dunham Laboratory, Yale University, General Dynamics/Electric Boat, 1965 (AD0476591.pdf) - a very technical analysis of a hydrophone array of 40 elements at 2 foot spacing relating to optimal signal processing when there's an interfering signal or unknown noise levels.  It has the feel of the Fenwick time delay beam steering patent and the antenna system with both main beam steering and null steering.

A Fresh Look at "Broadband" Passive Sonar Processing, Robert Zarnich, (ADA367050.pdf#page=100)

Black Box for ships

6706966 Hardened voyage data recorder,  L3 Communications Corp, 2004-03-16 - a black box for ships.  Based on the 1974 the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention. - Patent Citations (89) -

Unknown Sonobuoy - What is it?

There are many similarities with the CRT-1, but . . .
It looks like mid 1960s (date code, TO-3 power transistor in power supply, 1xx and 3xx tubes).
Someone has scratched SONOR on one of the sheet metal covers with an arrow pointing down.  This implies it's an active pinging unit rather than a passive listening only unit.
That is reinforced by the large space for batteries.
This is not mine.  Photos and information supplied by Michael, VK4ZKT

UnKS Fig 1
Unknown
                  Sonobuoy mid 1960s SONAR?
UnKS Fig 2  Tubes may be 12AT7,
not low voltage like in the CRT-1.
Unknown
                  Sonobuoy mid 1960s SONAR?
UnKS Fig 3
Unknown
                  Sonobuoy mid 1960s SONAR?
UnKS Fig 4
Unknown
                  Sonobuoy mid 1960s SONAR?

Unknown Sonobuoy No. 2

I received a couple of emails from John B. who lives in Greece.  He has sent a number of photographs of a sonobuoy that makes use of both tubes and solid state devices.
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Shadyside, MD
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Fig 10 Hydrophone
Mod. SB 154C
Auditory Capacities in Fish.pdf
5cm dia x 1.5cm thk
barium titanate
-89 decibels (re 1 volt per microbar of sound pressure) and a frequency response essentially flat from 50 cps.


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Fig 25
Unknown Sonobuoy No.
                  2

Underwater Communications

Patents for underwater communications

2530528 Phase comparator for underwater signaling, John G Kreer, Bell Labs, App: 1944-11-01, Pub: 1950-11-21, - involves balanced modulators and SONAR bearings
2798902 System and method for underwater communication, Kursman Daniel Richard, Sigmund P Rosen, 1957-07-09, -
single-sideband (Wiki) Suppressed-carrier transmission and reception, balanced modulator & filter, audio 250 Hz to 3 kHz, 8.1 kHz oscillator/carrier frequency. 6 Watt Tx has range of 2,000 yards.
3076174 Method and apparatus to enable swimmers to converse under water, Walter N Wainwright, Russell I Mason, 1963-01-29, - all audio frequency
3164800 Underwater telephony, John T Kroenert, Navy, 1965-01-05, - bal mod & filter, SSB, 8.1 kHz oscillator/carrier.

3181116 Underwater telephone system, William F Gordon, 1965-04-27, 367/132 455/40 367/124 455/73 - 10kHz balanced carrier
3218607 Underwater telephone, Charles R Brock, Reginald J Cyr, Bendix, 1965-11-16, - aprox. 50 kHz carrier

3263207 Transistor underwater telephone system, Herbert L West, Francis E Huff, Navy, 1966-07-26, 367/132 330/298 455/40 331/116R - may look like flashlight
3267414 Portable underwater communication unit, Kritz Jack, Janus Prod, 1966-08-16, - similar to a flashlight.

3277429 Communication system, Ralph G Lucas, 1966-10-04, - radio buoy & submerged ultrasonic transducer
3337841 Underwater telephone, Walter N Wainwright, Russell I Mason, Jr Victor Savchuk, Stanley L Ehrlich, Navy, 1967-08-22, - modular system, for free swimmers,
3495209 Underwater communications system, Homer A Engle, 1970-02-10, -
3789353 Diver communication system, E Hunter, D Smith, Navy, 1974-01-29, - binaural output to
facilitate the localization of sender. balanced modulator SSB system.
4039999 Communication system, John Weston, 1977-08-02, - uses angle or FM modulation for noise rediction
4336537 Bi-directional underwater communication system, Fredrick G. Strickland, 1982-06-22, - tethered to radio buoy
4418404 Single-sideband acoustic telemetry, Alan Gordon, Stanley J. Watson, Steven J. Cowen, Gerald Mackelburg, Brett D. Castile, Navy, 1983-11-29, -
6856578
Underwater alert system, Daniel J. Magine, Kevin D. Kaschke, Feb 15, 2005, 367/134 - Ocean Technology Systems Diver Recall System DRS-100?
3867715 Underwater communications system, Fred G Geil, Navy, 1975-02-18, - sub to sub, reversed time order, WQC or UQC: underwater telephone,

BQC-1 Underwater Telephone (Wiki: Gertude)

Battery powered portable unit in sub escape trunk. (SEATALK frequencies?)
YouTube: Sub Brief: Whiteboard: AN/BQC-1 Underwater Telephone 5:06 - Patreon, Aaron Amick, SubBrief.com,
MIL-S-15232 - SONAR SET AN/BQC-1 ( )
Voice  Mode:
500 yard (1500 feet) range.
Single Side Band (USB), not the double sideband in the early patents below.
8.3 kHz carrier.

Beacon Mode:
20,000 Yard (11 mile) range.
24.26 kHz ping once every 30 seconds.

BQC-1B & C additional homing tone: 9.58 kHz.

WQC-2 Underwater Telephone

Wired into sub or surface ship control room.  More power.  8.0875 kHz carrier frequency.
UQC-1 was replaced by the WQC-2. (SSQ-53A Ref 1, pg 142)

Communication Buoy "Float the Buoy"

4227479 Submarine communications system, Morton Gertler, Lester F. Whicker, Thomas Gibbons, Navy, App: 1962-08-07, (SECRET for 18 years) Pub: 1980-10-14, - TV camera, TV antenna,, VLF antenna, LF antenna (this was prior to satellites).

Submarine Missile Hanger

The Regulus Missile (Wiki) seems related to this patent by the Martin Co.

2735391 Warship
                  Weapons System, Including Aircraft Storing and
                  Launching Arrangement, H.H. Buschers, Glenn L Martin
                  Co, 1956-02-21
2735391 Warship Weapons System, Including Aircraft Storing and Launching Arrangement, H.H. Buschers, Glenn L Martin Co, 1956-02-21, -

2792599 Seal, Gantschnigg Gottfried Karl, Herbert H Buschers, Glenn L Martin Co, 1957-05-21, -

Submerged Signal Ejector (SSE) 3" Port

aka: Submerged Signal and Decoy Ejectors (SSDE)(Wiki)

Maritime.org - 12-4-01 Submerged Signal Ejectors  - 6" internal diameter:

These are similar to 100mm diameter torpedo tubes and probably are located in torpedo rooms.  These tubes can be used to launch various devices that fit the 100mm (4") tube.
Countermeasures, emergency beacons, signal flares, small explosive charges and probably a Bathythermograph (would require a way to handle the trailing wire) . . .
T-347/SRT Submarine Rescue buoy that transmits SOS SUB SUNK SOS is about 3-1/4" dia x 40-1/2" long and can be launched using the SSE.

It appears this is more of a standard than just for subs.  Aircraft also have a 3" dia. launch tube.

3" Launch Tube devices top to bottom:
T-347/SRT Buoy, Radio Transmitting - launched from submarine
Vaisala  RD93 GPS Dropsonde - launched from airplane
SUS: Signal Underwater Sound - launched from airplane
Sippican Ocean Systems SSXBT Model ST-1 Bathythermograph -launched from submarine 

Vaisala RD93 GPS
            Dropsonde,

Ref 8 mentions a 3" signal/decoy ejector (pg 69 photo of Bathythermograph & its terminal) that can be used for the Submarine Launched One-way Transmitter (SLOT)(pg 70).  In the Glossary (pg 308) "usually 3-inch".

So are there two different small launch tubes, i.e. 3" and 4" or has one of these become a standard? let me know

Patents related to this have been moved to the Signal Underwater Sound (SUS) Mk 84 web page Patents section.

2710458 Underwater
                  acoustic decoy
2710458 Underwater acoustic decoy, Reed Donald G, Sec of Navy, Filed: Jun 14, 1945 (10.0 year delay), Pub: Jun 14, 1955, 434/6, 114/20.1, 367/1, 434/25 - passive SONAR training device

Fig 1: either 3x32" or 4x43", most likley 3x32"
Fig 9: either 3x24 or 4x32"

This may or may not be launched from a sub.
2981927 Underwater
                  sound transmitter
2981927 Underwater sound transmitter, Vaughn G Mckenney, Sec of Navy, Filed: Apr 4, 1946 (15 year delay: SECRET), Pub: Apr 25, 1961, 367/1, 455/18, 114/20.1, 360/6 - returns SONAR pings at same frequency but offset in time (very similar to RADAR countermeasures). see Radar Warning Receiver

Fig 1 shows a length/diameter ratio of 11.5, so if 3" dia then length is 34", if dia is 4" then length is 46".
Since a yard or meter shows up as a practical length then I'd assume this is a 3 x 34" device.
maybe launched from the SSE 3" port?

Mentions:
2793589 Buoyancy control device, Atchley Raymond D, Filed: May 3, 1944, (13 year delay), Pub: May 28, 1957, 102/414 -

3379273 Powerful sound impulse generation methods and apparatus, Stephen V Chelminski, Bolt Technology, 1968-04-23, - the "airgun" mentioned by AAron in Sub Brief: Analysis: Seismic Airgun - used for geology of the ocean bottom. 
Has the look and feel of the Gamewell Diaphone Air Horn used at fire stations to call firemen and as a Fog Horn.
5003515 Submarine
                  emergency communication transmitter 
5003515 Submarine emergency communication transmitter, Albert S. Will, Frank C. McLean, Sylvan Wolf, Samuel H. Kauffman, John C. Hetzler, Jr., Charles A. Lewis, George E. Maxim, Secretary Of The Navy, Filed: May 28, 1964, (27 year delay)    Pub: Mar 26, 1991, 367/131, 367/145 -

Image flipped so that it's oriented as if in the water.  There are 7 drop bombs which are released by explosive bolts and they explode after 20 seconds so that their depth will be controlled (probably within the sound channel (see Roswell Connection above).  If the sink rate was the same as the Mk IX depth charge (15 fps) then after 20 seconds it would be down to 300 feet which is too shallow to get into the SOFAR Channel (Wiki).  I suspect the time delay is really much longer to that the drop bombs get into the SOFAR Channel.

The timing of the drop bomb release translated into one of a number of coded messages.

The length/diameter ratio is very small so will not help to determine its dimensions.

See other Albert Will patents
5044281 Submarine
                  flare with vertical attitude determination
5044281 Submarine flare with vertical attitude determination, Peter Ramsay, Brian W. Whiffen, Gerald M. Bushnell, Victor Nanut, Robert C. Czigledy, Robert J. Swinton, Maxwell J. Coxhead, Timothy R. Clarke, Australia, Sep 3, 1991, 102/340, 102/224, 102/351, 102/357, 102/354 -

The length/diameter ratio is 12.67, so: 3" x 38" or 4" x 57", seems to indicate it's 3 x 38".

UAV

UAV (Wiki) that can be launched from sonobuoy tube.
6056237 Sonotube compatible unmanned aerial vehicle and system, Richard L. K. Woodland, 2000-05-02, - cited by 276 other patents

Global Hawk

While learning about the AMT-6 Dropsonde which is 5" dia x 21-1/8" long I check to see if that was a standard sonobuoy size.  It is not. But the F size is about 5" x 12". The Global Hawk (Wiki, NCAR/NOAA, Dropsonde) drops a smaller unit (1-3/4" x 12").  I suspect sonobuoys could be dropped either by making them the same size or by using a different dispenser.  The existing dispenser holds three dozen dropsondes and feeds then to a single launch tube.

3093808 Air-dropped miniature sonobuoy, Gimber George A, Scarcelli Albert F, Tatnall George J, Secretary of the Navy , Jun 11, 1963, 367/4, 441/33, 441/25, 343/709, 455/99 - cited by 31; Prior art sonobuoys were 3' long, 5" diameter and weighed 16 to 20 pounds limiting aircraft time on station and had a max depth of about 50'.  This one is 15" long, about 3" dia and weighs about 5 pounds with a max depth of 300'.  also see 3047259 Speed brake retarding mechanism for an air-dropped store, George J Tatnall, Albert F Scarcelli, Navy, 1962-07-31, - Note this may be compatible with the common 3" launch system (the same as the Submerged Signal Ejector)

Command Activated Sonobuoy (CAS)

5452262 mentions "Another modulation scheme uses a DTMF (dual tone, multiple frequency) encoder to modulate an AM transmitter at UHF. This allows the use of inexpensive "touch tone' telephone technology. Thus, using a key pad encoder and decoder circuit board, sixteen unique decoded outputs can be obtained by pressing only one keypad button per command. Combinations of two and three keypad digits may be used to further expand the command set, with increased complexity at the decoder end."  Limited to Line-Of-Sight (LOS) or about 10 miles for sonobuoys.

3344420 Data collection system, Melvin W Arsove, Raytheon, 1967-09-26, -
The sonobuoy has a 1N21 mixer diode in a microwave circuit responsive to the search radar in a P-3.  When a Command is given to a specific sonobuoy over the UHF CAS link data in modulated on the 1N21 diode by an audio frequency.  The aircraft PPI display shows a sonobuoy icon and numerical data from the sonobuoy,
3676780 Digital frequency generator for coded interrogation, George W Niemann, Charles N Shannon, Navy, App: 1966-06-09, SECRET, Pub: 1972-07-11, -
"A command control sonobuoy system is provided in which a large number of buoys are commanded on a single frequency from a remote position. A single radio frequency carrier signal is modulated with selected two tone signals from a plurality of discrete tones derived from digital elements upon the receipt of instructions from an operator or a computer."
Uses a 1.6384 MHz crystal divided by 512 = 3200 Hz.
3731262 Time mark-numeral generator system, R Blake, Navy, 1973-05-01, - uses a sonobuoy that includes a magnetic tape recorder. 
"The present invention relates to generator systems and more particularly to a time mark-numeral generator system which performs the major function of timing and identification. Time marks and numerals are permanently exposed on recording film so as to indicate the buoy number, time of day, the day, and the month that corresponding data on the film was recorded in the buoy at some remote point.

There frequently arise occasions when it is important to record over extended periods of time various sounds and noises which arise below the surface of the sea. This information would be particularly important during the case of a war to give an indication of submarine activity, or the information may be used to indicate the movement of schools of fish, the location of geodetic explosions, or even the movement of thermal tides. The usual procedure for obtaining this type of information is through the use of either passive sonar or listening equipment located within a moored sonor buoy. The buoys continuously record the sea noise on some form of film or magnetic tape usually in a frequency band in the neighborhood of 10 to 300 cycles per second. When it is necessary to retrieve the recorded information, an interrogation signal is sent to the buoy which then plays back the recorded data to some remote station. Certain procedures proposed for analyzing the data require a knowledge of the time of day signals were recorded in the buoy. For convenient application of these procedures, it is necessary to have a time scale corresponding to recording time written in the margin of the recording film. However, there are no timing signals available in the transmitted RF signal from the buoy to the remote station which can be used to deter mine recording time. Therefore, the construction of a time scale must be based on the time playback is started and the ratio of playback to recording speed, so experience from past attempts to write time numerals on the film manually indicated that an automatic system was needed."

Maybe this was a precursor to SOSUS (Wiki)? Or maybe testing locations for SOSUS hydrophones?
3772639 Sonobuoy mooring unit, R Snyder, Navy, 1973-11-13, - (same time frame as 3731262 & not at all standard sonobuoy practice.  maybe testing locations for SOSUS hydrophones?

3783441 Air launched, wire guided torpedo, Z Slawsky, Navy, App:1965-06-30, SECRET, Pub: 1974-01-01, -
"A submarine detecting and tracking system which ultilizes sonouoys to track both a target submarine and a guided torpedo. The sonobuoy signals are received and processed on a surface vessel or aircraft and the torpedo is guided by remote control to intercept the target submarine." Torpedo leave a buoy on the surface and a wire connects buoy and torpedo.
Cites 2 patents, Cited by 16 patents.

4660182 Programmable multichannel sonobuoy transmitter, Albert M. Bates, Wayne H. Sandford, Jr., Michael T. Junod, Navy, 1987-04-21, - 145.375 (Chan 57)

Sonobuoy Training

3649735 Transmission System, William K Coburn, Richard E Hillger, Navy, App:, SECRET, Pub: 1972-03-14, - simulates up to 9 sonobuoys and transmits on a single antenna to nearby aircraft.  The location of the buoys and sub can be set as well and the speed and bearing of the sub.  The signal amplitude to each of the sonobuoys is attenuated to match the range to the sub.  Sea State noises are included.  162.25 to 173.5 Mhz. range where 5 adjacent channels of the possible 16 channels can be selected.

4436049 Simulator for testing sonobuoys, Louis E. Ante, Richard A. Lindquist, Eugene R. Roeschlein, Navy, 1984-03-13, -  a floating barge with a 2-way winch can simulate wave motions.

Related

Aircraft
CRT-1 Sonobuoy
Magnetics - Magnetostriction, Sound Bug
Helmholtz coil -
Helmholtz Resonator & Tuning Forks
Torpedoes, Mines, Depth Charges
Submarines
GEO_ID - TRC-3, PEWS, USQ-42, Turd
GSQ154 - All GSQ-154
GSQ160 - Frequency Disconnect -GSQ-160, USQ-46, TS-2963, PP-6446 - TCw - cylindrical module pinouts.
GSS26 - AN/GSS-26 minimal info
Intrusion Alarm Patents
USQ_Rx - Igloo White, USQ-42, USQ-46 details,
PSR-1 - now on it's own page (July 2007)
Modular Outdoor Intrusion Sensors (REMBASS?)
Astronomy - UFOs - Richard Muller Physics Lecture 11 - Waves 1

P-3C Systems

I lived in Mountain View, California for some decades and Moffett Field was the base for P-3 aircraft.
NASA operated a flying telescope and a U-2 there as well as a giant wind tunnel among many wind tunnels of all kinds.
Just looking up the systems listed for the Update II.
Navy.mil: Standard Aircraft Characteristics, P-3C Update II.pdf , 12 pages, 1984 -
Coms
Data Terminal
ACQ-5A
Teletypewriter
AGC-8
Intercom
AIC-22(V)1
UHF
ARC143B
HF
ARC-161
Emerg. Trans
PRT-5
Crash  Locator
URT-26(V)
VHF Comm Group
618N-3/A


Armament
Harpoon Ctrl
AWG-19B(V)1

Nav
True Airspeed
A24G-9
Central Repeater
AM-4923/A
Flight Director System
AJN-15
Altimeter
APN-194(V)
Navigation Set, Radar
APN-227
RAWS
APQ-107
UHF DF
ARA-50
LF-DF
ARN-83
Omega
ARN-99(V)1
TACAN
ARN-118(V)
AFCS
ASW-31A
Horiz. Situation Ind
ID-1540/A
Periscope Sextant
MS28011-7
OTPI Receiver
R1651/ARA
Sonobuoy Reference Set
ARS-3
VHF Navigation Group
VIR-31
Inertial Nav System
LTN-72

Non-Acoustical Sensor Data
ESM Set
ALQ-78A
Radar
APS-115B
IFF
APX-72
SIF
APX-76A(V)
SAD ASA-64A
Compensator ASA-65(V)2
Compensator ASA-65(V)2
MAD ASQ-81(V)2
IRDS AAS-36
IRDS VIdeo REc Grp OA-8962/ASH
Disp Grp, Tact Aux (TADS)
OD-159A


Acoustical Sensor Data
Sonar Comp Rec Grp
(Triple Vernier)
AQA-7A(V)6/7
Sono Recorder Sys AQH-4(V)2
Sonobuoy Rcvr Sys
ARR-72(V)
CASS (Modified) ASA-76A
Bathythermograph SSQ-36/RO-308
Sea Noise Meter ID-1872A
IACS OV-78/A

Data Processing/Display
Tact Disp
ASA-66
Radar Scan Conv
ASA-69
Tact Dsip Grp
ASA-70
Avn Unit Comp
ASQ-114(V)4
Data Anal Proc Grp
AYA-8B
Synchro Conv
CV-2461A/A
Time Code Gen
TD-900A/AS
Dig Dta Rec Rep
ASH-33

ACQ-5 Data Link

This is a data link system based on the aircraft HF-1, HF-2 or UHF-2 radios.  Uses Navy Tactical Data Systems serial protocol which includes symbology.
PP-6140/ACQ-5 Power Supply
C-7790/ACQ-5 Control Monitor - modem control
CV-2528/ACQ-5 Data Terminal Set Converter-Control - 26-bit serial modem in normal use: Clock Select=Master, Control=Operate, then other troubleshooting controls are disabled.
Communications Interface No. 2 - converts 30-bit parallel computer words into 26-bit serial data
Used with Link 11 (Wiki: MIL-STD-6011) and KG-40 (Crypto Museum)crypto.

AIC-22 Aviation Inter Communications

Aircraft intercom using headsets. The prior system was the AIC-18.  There were complaints of the radios interfering with the intercom and an investigation showed that using fiber optics would decrease the problem.
AM-3364/AIC-22(V) Interconnecting Box Amplifier

ARC-143 UHF Radio

Control head
Tranceiver

ARC-161 HF Radio

C-9245/ARC-161 Control Box
RT-1000/ARC-161 Receiver Transmitter
AM-6561/ARC-161 RF Amplifier
CU-2070/ARC Antenna Coupler
works with TSEC/KY-75 Remote Control Unit

PRT-5

Floating buoy that transmits on 8.364 MHz and 243.0 MHz.  1/4 Watt output power on both bands and a 3 day battery capacity.  Looks like a replacement for the Gibson Girl.  A 9 foot ling telescoping HF antenna will not be very efficient on HF (0.076 wavelength).

AQA-7 Sonar Computer Recorder Group (Triple Vernier)

"That system was the AQA-7 that "burned" the recorded data on paper. In it's original form it was call the "Jezebel" and we'd often call the acoustic operators "Jez" even after it was long gone from the aircraft. It would scroll like a fax machine and at the end of the mission, the paper would be turned in to the debriefing gang for reconstruction. One positive thing was the paper was an immediate visible replay of the information gained by the sonobuoys and the operators would also write and do computations on the paper itself. Plus an operator could cut off the paper and remove from the machine and review back in time while on the mission to maybe see if contact was missed. The negative was the nasty smell this machine produced!!!!!!!

Initially the buoys were "Lofar", or basically the buoy would detect a sound and give the operator a circle around the buoy and it would take multiple buoys to localize to a small area to search. "Difar" buoys, which provide sound recordings, but more importantly, direction from the buoy were the next important tool to be developed and replaced Lofar. Two or three buoys with lines pointing to a noise source and there it is where those lines intersect.

The USN went away from the AQA-7 when the P-3C Update III came on line in the mid 1980s. The acoustic processing system was now all computerized, Lofar buoys were a thing of the past. The new system was called the UYS-1, and the big and probably final upgrade to that system was introduction "CHEX" or channel expansion, allowing the aircrews to have 99 channel capabilities for buoy channel numbers of buoys instead of only 32 (see Channels above). Now, all the data is recorded on tapes that had to be replayed on ground based computer systems to review the mission and compare with operator notes. (Operators could not do this in-flight). That system is what is featured in the Hickory Aviation Museum's P-3C (See below), with plasma panels to enter data and manipulate the buoys. When flying, the operator on the right was the lead, he'd usually do the Difar work, which was passive only, just listening for noise. The other operator was usually in training and would help and also do the Dicass, or active buoys should they be authorized. Dicass would provide a range and bearing from buoy to target with burst of energy, just like sonar.. I flew on aircraft with both systems, and a lot comes down to the quality of the operator and numerous other factors such as oceanographic conditions, and of course, the target itself. Hope that answers the question, if not, let me know., I had 3k+ hours flying P-3C?s." . . . . Brian Harrison

"I concur with what Bill said for the most part. The AQA-7 operators, SS1 and SS2, didn't provide circles. They would provide frequency of the signal, its signal strength, time of detection and loss of signal. Based on the signal strengths, the TACCO could draw circles around the buoys on his display to help localize the target. The greater the signal strength, the smaller the circle. Where the circles intersected, if they did, could provide possible target locations. That was only useful if the signal was direct path (nearby the buoy), but not if the signal was actually from a convergence Zone (CZ) (much farther away). The TACCO would use tactics to determine between the two. The tactics would include more Lofar buoys and/or some Difar buoys." Brian's brother.

4736199 Method of selectively displaying data, Victor J. Chadwick, Ronald W. Barnes, BAE Systems, 1988-04-05, -
WO2001098796 Acoustic surveillance system with signature and bearing data display, John J. Molini, Warren C. Hollis, Sung Hong, Lockheed-Martin, 2001-12-27- has examples of various waterfall displays.
Fig 1 LOFAR waterfall with frequency on X-axis.
You can get this from an omnidirectional sonobuoy
WO2001098796
                  Acoustic surveillance system with signature and
                  bearing data display
Fig 2 Side by Side LOFAR waterfall and Bearing Time Recording (BTR) waterfall
WO2001098796
                  Acoustic surveillance system with signature and
                  bearing data display
Fig 5 Composite acoustic data display
Top display Frequency waterfall. (frequencies 0 to 2400 at bottom)
Left display Bearing waterfall (bearings 0 to 360 at right).
Lower right (main) display Frequency-Bearing display
WO2001098796
                  Acoustic surveillance system with signature and
                  bearing data display
Fig 6 Correlogram Frequency-Bearing display
WO2001098796
                  Acoustic surveillance system with signature and
                  bearing data display
Fig 7 Pictorial of the frequency/bearing area of Fig 5


BQC-1 Underwater Telephone (Wiki: Gertude)

YouTube: Sub Brief: Whiteboard: AN/BQC-1 Underwater Telephone 5:06 - Patreon, Aaron Amick, SubBrief.com,

"Float the Buoy" 4227479 Submarine communications system, Morton Gertler, Lester F. Whicker, Thomas Gibbons, Navy, App: 1962-08-07, (SECRET for 18 years) Pub: 1980-10-14, - TV camera, TV antenna,, VLF antenna, LF antenna (this was prior to satellites).

Submarine Laser Communications (SLC)

4995101 Secure two-way communications with submerged submarines, Paul J. Titterton, Frederick Martin, Dan J. Radecki, Robert W. Cotterman, GTE (GD), 1991-02-19, - cited by 33 patents.
Pushbroom is a type of scanning (Wiki) not a program name.
Modern digital communications require wide bandwidths which are hard to come by using radio transmissions and so are moving to modulating light (either in an optical fiber or directly through the air, like in the Starlink satellite-to-satellite links.

SOSUS (Wiki)

I think SOSUS developed the various waterfall displays but in a crude electromechanical way that would be too heavy and bulky for use on aircraft.  But the next generation equipment would fit on aircraft.  The first generation SOSUS worked with paper plotters (probably using the same paper as the Western Union DeskFax machine).

3611277 Sensitive hydrophone, Max N Yoder, Navy, 1971-10-05, - laser interferometery
3893061 Underwater acoustic detection system, Zaka I Slawsky, Wayne Dee Wilson, Navy, 1975-07-01, - This is really a transponder that sends out a ping when it detects something interesting.
4115753 Fiber optic acoustic array, Peter Shajenko, Navy, 1978-09-19, -

Frederick Hunt (Wiki) in charge of the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory and came up with the word SONAR.  He developed a technique called the Bearing Deviation Indicator (BDI).  The following patent is cited my many other patents.
2166991 Direction finding system, Guanella Gustave, Radio Patents, 1939-07-25, - This "Big Ears" was a system based on sound (prior to RADAR) to detect the ultimate weapon of that time, the high altitude bomber.
Here are some patents by Frederick Hunt:
2666192 Apparatus for determining the direction of underwater targets, Frederick V Hunt, Schuck Oscar Hugo, Charles R Rutherford, Hathaway Jarrett Lewis, Jr Arthur Nelson Butz, App: 1944-07-27, W.W.II, Pub: 1954-01-12, - this is for an active 20 kHz "Searchlight" type SONAR and improves the bearing accuracy.  The CRT trace time starts at the bottom center and when a return arrives it deflects the spot to the right if the target return is to the right.  To get the bearing the searchlight is turned to the right until the spot is centered.  This is a SONAR patent.
2595791 Transducer, Frederick V Hunt, Navy, App: 1946-04-05, W.W.II, Pub: 1952-05-06, - magnetostrictive (moved to the CRT-1 sonobuoy web page)

Missile Launch Patents

6164179 Submarine deployable vertical launch spar buoy, Martin Buffman, Navy, 2000-12-26, - "Fixed air support missiles (FASM) have been developed for multiple missions. The fixed air Support missile is a class of Small missile which can be used against airborne targets Such as helicopters, can be deployed to provide aerial Surveillance, or can be used for ground Support missions. These missiles are relatively Small and cheap. They have not been deployed on Submarines because of launching considerations."

Cites:
3158062 Missile container and launcher, Feiler  describes a launching tube for a missile, which launching tube is designed to protect the missile while it is being transported to its launch Site. The Feiler launching tube is further designed to be anchored in an upright position So that the missile stored within can be launched vertically.
4586421 Underwater weapon systems,
 illustrates yet another vertically oriented, underwater launch tube for a missile. The launch tube comprises an elongate outer container which is buried or partially buried in the Seabed in an upright position. The container uses devices at its bottom end for removing Sand or Silt and an auger for boring a hole in the Seabed or a rotary stirrer. The missile is housed within an inner container which is telescopically arranged within the outer container.
5092222 Float up system for submarine launched missiles, Lynch illustrates a float-up launching System for launching missiles from Submerged Submarines or other Submerged launchers which utilizes a lightweight rigid cylindrical tube telescoped over the missile while Stored in the launcher. On launching, the tube is extended forward of the missile by a gas generator to form a floatation chamber which creates extra buoyancy forward of the missile center of gravity. This lifts the missile nose upward to the water Surface allowing ignition of the missile booster motors and launch of the missile.
5076192 Unmanned submarine for air rocket, Tegel & Wenzel illustrates an unmanned Submarine launching System which is guided to the Surface of the water in order to launch an air rocket contained therein and which is provided in its walls with closeable openings for the discharge of the rocket recoil gases into the Surrounding water to conduct the impinging recoil gases of a launched air rocket directly out of the Submarine.
4854260 Configuration of discharge tubes, ejection tubes or receptacles in submarines, Woidich & Toobe
illustrates a configuration in which bodies such as torpedoes can be held in an additional container inside a torpedo tube in a Submarine. The container is in the manner of an interior tube. The annular space between the torpedo and its tube is used to hold damping elements, which are located individually or over the entire structure of the torpedo, and the annular Space is kept free of water by means of Sealing elements. Another damping element is positioned in the rear portion of the container in the torpedo tube.
5542333 Undersea vehicle ejection from capsules, Hagelberg & Allardt
illustrates an Under Sea Vehicle Storage and Ejection System which includes a capsule having a cavity for storing and launching a vehicle. The capsule has an opening at one end for passage of the vehicle therethrough. A closure member is adapted to be mated with the housing at the opening to seal the cavity. A rocket unit is incorporated within the capsule to remove the closure member at launch. The closure member includes a sealing arrangement for withstanding the hydrostatic pressure when the system is in the under sea environment of use and block the entry of sea water into the cavity. The rocket unit, when ignited, rapidly builds up pressure within the capsule to a level exceeding the external hydrostatic pressure on the cover, thereby removing the cover So that the vehicle may be launched.

Movies

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story - IMDB - Claims that the Navy used her invention on DIFAR sonobuoys in the RF link back to the airplane.  The reference cited is:
http://www.rism.com/atribute.htm#sonobuoy
Which no longer is on line and archive.org does not have a copy.
But that's a false claim since the link back to the aircraft is not encrypted. and doesn't need to be. There's no enemy to hear the transmission.  Even today with satellites it's questionable if there's any value in encrypting the link.

2413066 Torpedo control by multiple channel
                  selector, Ellison S Purington, Navy, 1946-12-24
2413066 Torpedo control by multiple channel selector, Ellison S Purington, Navy, App: 1935-11-06, SECRET, Pub: 1946-12-24,  uses either one of two RF frequencies or one of two audio modulation tones for Left or Right signal.
2292387
                          Secret communication system, Markey Hedy
                          Kiesler, Antheil George, 1942-08-11
2292387
                          Secret communication system, Markey Hedy
                          Kiesler, Antheil George, 1942-08-11

2292387 Secret communication system, Markey Hedy Kiesler, Antheil George, App: 1941-06-10, granted the next year, 1942-08-11, -
This is for a secure way to use radio remote control for a torpedo. 

While 67 patents cite this one, Lamarr & Purington do not cite 2413066 above.

Note this patent was granted in about a year and during W.W.II, not held like the patent above until after W.W.II. which goes to say it was not considered a secret or anything to protect.

Books & References

Also see: Aircraft Reference books, Submarine References, Torpedo Reference Books,

Ref 1. Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 18th Edition (2005) by Norman Polmar
Ref 2. The Ears of Air ASW: A history of U.S. Navy Sonobuoys (2008) - Holler, Horbach & McEachem
Ref 3.Scientists Against Time, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd ed, 1946 - 1952 (Wiki)
Ref 4. An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment, Gary E. Weir, 2001, ISBN: 1-58544-114-7
Ref 5. Design and Construction of Crystal Transducers, NDRC Summary Report Vol 12, 1946 (407 pages) - University of California Division of War Research [UCDWR]
Ref 6. The Evolution of the Sonobuoy from World War II to the Cold War, Holler, Jan 2014.
Ref 7. Sonobuoy History from a UK Perspective: RAE Farnborough's Role in Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare, Clive Radley, 2016 -Chapter 4: The first operational Sonobuoy, the AN/CRT-1, used by the USA and the UK in World War 2.
Ref 8.
Submarine (Tom Clancy's Military Reference), 2003 - mentions 3" signal/decoy ejector (pg 69), Submarine Launched Oneway Transmitter (SLOT) also uses the 3" launch tube (pg 70)
Ref 9. History  of Communications-Electronics  in the  United  States  Navy, L.  S.  Howeth, 1963 - U.S. Early Radio History - Ch 26: Dev of Underwater Sound and Detection Equipment, pg 297
Ref 10. Principles of Underwater Sound by Robert J. Urick, 3rd ed, Hardcover ISBN: 9780932146625
Ref 11. Wiring Vietnam: The Electronic Wall, Anthony J. Tambini,2007 (wiring_vietnam.pdf)- some mention of sonobuoys (Exhibits at: Patuxent River Naval Air Museum & USS Hornet Museum).P-2 used (pg 69) typo? ". The P2V was selected for this mission and other special operations missions because of its long history of successfully deploying antisubmarine detection devices, primarily the magnetic anomaly detector. " should be primarily the Sonobuoy.
Ref 12. History of Ultra Electronics Maritime Systems Inc. - The History of Sonobuoys - "from October 1942 to the war’s end in 1945, the U.S. Navy had ordered 150,000 sonobuoys and 7,500 sonobuoy receivers".  An NDRC document actually states 160,000 so reality is 150/160k.
Ref 13. Batcats: The United States Air Force 553rd Reconnaissance Wing in Southeast Asia by Sikora & Westin, 2003 -
Ref 14. EC-47: Acoubuoy, Spikebuoy, Muscle Shoals and Igloo White.pdf by Chris Jeppeson 1999 -
Ref 15. Photo 10-26-45 Acme news: Arthur Gremer, design engineer; Francis Burger, supervising engineer; George Rogers, chief engineer; Mark Grant, design engineer.  Announced to public around October 1945.
Ref 16. History of Communications-Electronics in the United  States Navy, 1963 (html, pdf)
Ch XXVI Development of Underwater Sound and Detection Equipment (html)
Ch XXXI The Navy and the Patent Situation (html) - W.W. I
XXXIX SONAR (html)
Ref 17. Probing The Oceans For Submarines -- A History of the AN/SQS-26 Long-Range, Echo-Ranging Sonar (a538018.pdf) 266 pgs
1. Introduction
2. History
3. Launching Program
4. Full Scale Experimentation & Development
5. Prototype Testing
6. Supporting R&D
7. Rubber Dome Window
8. Equip Ops & Tactical Employment
9. Fleet Performance
10 Conclusions
11. End Notes
App A: Event Chronology
App B: Personnel by employer
Index
Looking for patents based on names mentioned in Ref 17.
2434469 Pressure-proof reproducer, William A Myers, App: 1944-07-01, Pub: 1948-01-13, -
2537052 Tuning means for ultra high frequency signal generators, Andrew V Haeff, Charles B Smith, Robert H Mellen, App: 1945-08-30, Pub: 1951-01-09, - 
2563829 Cable seal, James W Fitzgerald, Burton G Hurdle, Carlton L Morse, App: 1946-04-17, Pub: 1951-08-14, -
2694868 Echo repeater, Edwin M Mcmillan, William A Myers, App: 1943-08-03, Pub: 1954-11-23, -
3209314 Sound beacon, William A Myers, Vaughn G Mckenney, App: 1944-08-09, (SECRET for 21 YEARS), Pub: 1965-09-28, -
3229245 Echo ranging display system, Burton G Hurdle, Jr Robert J Mackey, 1966-01-11, -
3246289 Resonant underwater hydrodynamic acoustic projector, Robert H Mellen, 1966-04-12, -
3307142 Three-color echo ranging display, Harold J Doebler, 1967-02-28,
3403374 Underwater hydrodynamic acoustic projector, Robert H Mellen, Berman Robert, Kenneth L Moothart, Navy, 1968-09-24, -
4473896 Tactical Expendable Device, Harrison T. Loeser, Harold J. Doebler, Navy, 1984-09-25, -
5526323 Method and apparatus for interpretation of sonar signals, Robert M. Chapman, GD, App: 1965-09-28, (SECRET 31 YEARS) Pub: 1996-06-11
5911172 Retractable underwater turret, Kyrill V. Korolenko, Navy, 1999-06-08, -
6052335 Multiple-frequency sonar system, Kyrill V. Korolenko, Navy, 2000-04-18, -
6229761 Estimating ship velocity through the water and over the ground, Kyrill V. Korolenko, Henry Ralph D'Amelia, Henry Robert D'Amelia, Navy, 2001-05-08, -
6868768 Surf zone mine clearance and assault system, Thomas J. Gieseke, Kyrill V. Korolenko, 2005-03-22, -
7940602 Real-time system and method of underwater depth discrepancy detection, recordation and alarm notification, Kyrill V. Korolenko, Navy,2011-05-10, -
Ref 18. Hitler's Naval War, Cajus Bekker, 1971 - Around 1939 the German Subs had pretty much the same problems that the U.S. had starting in 1942.  Torpedoes that ran deep, Magnetic exploders that did not work, contact exploders that did not work.  Haven't yet seen circular running mentioned.
Ref 19. US Naval Weapons, Norman Friedman, 1983 (no copyright notice) - Excellent information not in other books about how decisions were made.
1. Guns (surface fire)
2. Fleet air defense before 1945
3. Underwater ordnance
4. Fleet are defense after 1945
5. Air-to-air weapons - See China Lake
6. Surface-to-air missiles
Appendidces: Guns, Fire Control Systems, Gun Mounts, Armor Penetration, Airborne Radars, Sonars, Sonobuoys, Torpedoes, Mines, Depth Charges, ASW Projectors, ASW Missiles, Guided Missile Launching Systems, Surface-to-air Missiles, Bombs, Nuclear Weapons, Air-to-Surface Missiles, Surface-to-Surface missiles.
Ref 21. Pushing Horizon: Seventy-Five Years of High Stakes Science, Ivan Amato, 1998 -
Ref 20, Ref 22. Principles and Applications of Underwater Sound, Originally Issued as Summary Technical Report of Division 6, NDRC, Vol. 7, 1946, Reprinted...1968 (pdf 321 pages)  (Print on Demand) [at the time I ordered the print on demand book there was no free on line copy.  Maybe ordering the POD book freed it up?]
Part 1: Basic Principles of Underwater Sound
Part 2: Echo Ranging
Part 3: Listening
Ref 23. Naval War College Newport Papers 16; The Third Battle, Innovation in the U.S. Navy's silent Cold War struggle with Soviet Submarines, Owen R. Cote Jr, 2003
This is an excellent overview of the cold war ASW approach by aircraft, surface ships and other submarines.
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) had the machinery anchored to the hull and so generated a large amount of noise.  That led to a new class of subs using "rafts" to isolate machinery and dampened flexible tubing to move water in or out to lower the acoustic signature of our subs.

1. From Holland to the Second Battle (end of W.W.II), the first 50 years
2. Phase 1: German Type XXI & early cold war - SOFAR channel,
3. Phase 2: ASW & the two Nuclear Revolutions, 1950 - 1960 -
BQR-2 (Wiki), BQR-4 (Wiki), p32:CRT-1, SSQ-2 (JPROC), LOFAR
QHB sonar: scanning, 25 khz, 19" trans, 1,800 yds @ 20 knots
SQS-4 sonar: 15 khz, 5' array, 8,000 yds (DASH, QH-50)
SQS-23 sonar: 5 khz, 8' array, 10,000 yds
SQS-26 sonar (Wiki): 3.5 khz, 11 - 40 miles
HENs (Wiki: Hotel, Echo, November)
4. Phase 3: ASW and the Happy Time, 1960-1980
P-3 Orion (Wiki)
SOSUS (Wiki) LOFAR,
LAMPS (see: AM-6536/ALR-54 LAMPS Radar Warning Receiver Front-end)
5. Phase 4: ASW & accoustic Parity, 1980-1990
"Because the Akulas did not produce powerful, continuous, narrowband tonals, transient tonals often provided the best initial detection opportunities at long range."
SURTASS (Wiki)
6. Forth Battle? Subs & ASW after the cold war
Ref 24. Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons, Willis J. Abbot, 1918, 567pgs (pdf)
Ref 25. Underwater Acoustics and its Applications.  A Historical Review. L & I Bjorno, 1999 (pdf)
Ref 26. UoTX:  A Guide to the Maurice Ewing Papers, 1912, 1925-1974 -
Ref 27. The Acquisition of Sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy, May 1976, 10 pgs, a033812.pdf - AQA-7 then AQA-9, SSQ-53 & SSQ-50 (then SSQ-62).
Ref 28. AN/AQA to AN/AQS - Equipment Listing -
Ref 29. Technologies for Sonar Processing, 11 pgs, (19-04-South.pdf) - examples of Time-Frequency and Time-Bearing plots.
LOFAR display: Y-axis newest time at top, X-axis frequency, i.e. a Waterfall display.
Bearing Time Recording: Y-axis newest time at top, X-axis bearing, i.e. another kind of Waterfall display.
"Before 1985, the sonar images produced by the signal processors were printed to thermal hard-copy paper and then analyzed.  Each data tape generated about 1,000 sheets of hard-copy paper, or more than 100,000 sheets for a single SSBN submarine mission. Each image was printed on dry silver paper, which was quite expensive in the quantities required."
Authors: Hugh M. South, David C. Cronin, Samuel L. Gordon, Timothy P. Magani. - no patents by any of them
Ref 30. Naval SONAR, 1953, NAVPERS 10884
Ch 12 Sound-Range and Depth Recorders - electrochemical wet paper feed roll stored in vapor-tight tank.  2-speed paper advance motor and 2-speed left-right stylus motor. 
Ch 13 Submarine Listening Equipment - JP-1, JP-2 & JP-3 manually trained hydrophone,
Ch 17 SONAR Training Equipment: QFA-6 Attack Teacher - made by Sangamo Electric Co. because 2 electric meter mechanisms were used to move mirrors to position a spot of light on a screen.  The meters respond to E * I *COS(phase) which matches the needed math for position plots. (I=ships speed, E=COS(heading from East)
Ref 31. FAS: ES310 Introduction to Naval Weapons Engineering Course Syllabus - Under Water Acoustics & SONAR: Introduction, Enviornment, ASW Systems (Bearing Time History), Sonobuoys: DICASS, DIFAR, VLAD
Ref 32. Approved Navy Training System Plan for the Navy Consolidated Sonobuoys N88-NTSP-A-50-8910B/A, September 1998 -
The sonobuoys discussed in this NTSP are all A-size: length 36 inches, diameter 4 7/8 inches. The sonobuoy weight varies by manufacturer and buoy type, but will not exceed 39 pounds.

The BT, DIFAR, LOFAR, DICASS, VLAD, and DLC sonobuoys are used in conjunction with the on-board systems of the P-3C, SH-2G, and SH-60B/F aircraft.

The P-3C Update III, SH-60B Upgrade, SH-2G Upgrade and SH-60F Upgrade are potential recipients of the ADAR sonobuoy.

The AN/SSQ-110 EER sonobuoy will operate with the P-3C Update III to form the EER System. The AN/SSQ-110A EER sonobuoy will operate with the P-3C Update III to form the EER and Improved EER Systems, respectively. The SH-60B Upgrade, SH-2G Upgrade, and the SH-60F Upgrade are potential recipients of the EER sonobuoy.
SSQ-36 Bathythermograph
SSQ-53D/E Low Frequency Analysis and Recording (LOFAR)
SSQ-62B/C/D/E Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System (DICASS)
SSQ-77B Vertical Line Array DIFAR (VLAD)
SSQ-86 Data Link Communications (DLC)
SSQ-101 Air Deployable Active Receiver (ADAR)
SSQ-110/A Extended Echo Ranging (EER)

Technical Manuals
TM
Title
Format
NAVAIR 28-SSQ-500-1 Sonobuoy Instruction Manual Hard copy
NAVAIR 28-SSQ-500-4 Basic Introduction to Air ASW Sensors CD-ROM
NAVAIR 28-SSQ-500-4A Basic Introduction to Air ASW Sensors (Confidential Supplement) CD-ROM
NAVAIR 11-1-107 SUS Technical Manual Hard copy
NAVAIRINST 4010.3A Sonobuoy Inventory Cord Report, Control & Disposition CD-ROM
NWP 3-20.5 P-3 TACMAN Hard copy
NAVAIR 01-75PA-75 P-3 A/B/C Airborne Weapons, Storage, Loading Manual Hard copy
NWP 3-21.64 SH-60F TACMAN Hard copy
NAVAIR H60BB-LWS-000 SH-60B Airborne Weapons, Storage, Loading Manual Hard copy
NWP 3-21.63 SH-60B/LAMPS MKIII TACMAN Hard copy
NWP 55-2-SH2/LAMPS MKI SH-2G TACMAN Hard copy

Ref 33. RP33 Fleet Oceanographic and Acoustic Reference Manual - 1999, 234 pgs,
Ref 34. NASA Technical Memorandum 85727, Review of Underwater Acoustic Systems and Methods for Locating Objects Lost at Sea, Nov. 1983, -
Development Spec. DuKane Model N15A234: 10 kHz pulse 12.5ms every 1.4 seconds. 8 ea 1450 Mercury batteries, 240 Hours operating life (10 days), 2.340" dia x 7" long.
Photos:
Fig 1. ACR EPIRB
Fig 2 SUS Mk 59 Mod 5 Explosive Wt. 1.90 lbs, Total Wt. 4.80 lbs.
Fig 3 TDRSS tracking method
Fig 4 North Atlantic Ocean-depth profile
Fig 5 Down-looking sonar 30 deg beam
Fig 6. DuKane Model N15F210B FAA approved underwater sound source
Fig 7 Burnet Model 590 FAA approved underwater sound source
Fig 8 Dukane N15M210 commercial version of naval Mk 87 Mod 0 with optional mounting bracket.
Fig 9 DuKane recovery aids used on early NASA missions
Fig 10 DuKane N15A217 long range Appolo unit w/bracket.
Fig 11 DuKane N15A234 severe environmental conditions
Fig 12 DuKane N15M210 delayed turnon timing device in end cap
Fig 13 Deep submersible (SCRAB) to 6,000'
Fig 14 Navy "Deep Drone"
Fig 15 Search transceiver/receiver block diagram. spread spectrum Tx 9062 & 11.875 kHz.
Fig 16 Underwater transponder/transmitter block diagram
Fig 17 model of underwater depressor transducer vehicle
Fig 18 Fixed beam, towed transducer platform using NRL type depressor (Rx @ 30 - 40 kHz & 9 - 12 kHz)
Fig 19 48-crystal beam forming underwater platform @ 10 kHz
Fig 20 Proposed concept for Fig 19
Ref 35. The Naby's Best-Kept Secret: is IUSS Becoming a Lost Art?, D.M. Maskell, 2001 (DTIC: ADA401150.pdf) -
Ref 36. History of the Anti-Submarine Measures Division of the Tenth Fleet, 7 Dec 1981, 137pgs - depth charges, IN early 1941 SONAR was blind when a sub got within a few hundred yards of a ship with SONAR because the pattern was mostly horizontal. "One phase of anti-submarine measures which later made a decisive contribution to success in 1943 was practically non-existent at the close of 1941.  This was naval anti-submarine aviation. The decisive importance of naval aviation in an anti-submarine war seems not to have been recognized prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Fortunately its importance was recognized even later by the enemy. " "The development of the sono-buoy* aircraft searchlights* rockets* and the Mark 24 mine all occurred after 1941." "The use of Army planes and personnel reporting as Sea Frontier Commands, but not under control of CominCh, led to an intolerable administrative situation whose liquidation was one of the main objectives when TENTH Fleet was created in 1943."  "The Mark I sono-buoy was first dropped from a blimp on 3 April and was in production by June 1942." Sep 1943 German GNAT acoustic homing torpedo is deployed.  The FIR countermeasure "singing saw" worked, nullifying the GNAT. A chronology is on pdf page 120 covering 27 June 1941 to 12 June 1945.
Ref 37. The Age of Orion: The Lockheed P-3 Story, David Reade, 1998, 223 pgs - pg.18: "The AQA-3A JEZEBEL long range (passive) acoustic signal processor/recorder system and its associated ASA-20 JULIE "Explosive" echo-locating system."  The AQA-3 appears to have the same front panel as the AQA-1, but slightly different top just behind the panel.
Ref 38.Submarine Torpedo Tactics: An American History Illustrated Edition by Edward Monroe Jones & Shawn S. Roderick, 2014, 232 pgs -
Ref 39. A Brief History of U.S. Navy Torpedo Development, E.W. Jolie, 1978 (HNSA.htm)
Ref 40. Subband Energy Detection in Passive Array Processing, Bono, Shapo, McCarty & Bethel, (ADA405484.pdf)
Ref 41. Sea shadow (Wiki, HMB-1) - The Polaroid Concept (Sonar One Step Camera, Ultrasonic) -
Ref 42. F-117A of The Seas: Lockheed Skunk Work's Sonar-Invisible Submarine -
Ref 43. ASDIC and SONAR in the RCN -
Ref 44. Meeting the Submarine Challenge: A Short History of the Naval Underwater Systems Center, 1997 (Google), 397 pgs  -
5122807 Motion-compensated direction finding system, Peter M. Trask, Gregory J. Majewski, Navy, 1992-06-16, - "The motion compensated direction finding system of the invention has especial utility for buoys released from undersea vessels released to sea surface."
2821709 Antennas, Fucci Salvatore, 1958-01-28, - stacking VHF & UHF antennas on a mast.
4554554 Quadrifilar helix antenna tuning using pin diodes, Ralph C. Olesen, Robert A. Sainati, John J. Gropelli, Jr.Andrew J. Stanland, Navy, 1985-11-19, - Band 1:250 - 270; Band 2: 290 - 315 MHz & a 5 Band version for 260 to 400 MHz.
UHF SATCOM buoy, now designated AN/BRT-6
6859180 Gravity-actuated submarine antenna, David F. Rivera, Navy, 2005-02-22 - buoyant cable antennas (BCA) that works for SATCOM. (see AS-3379A BCA)
7577405 Disposable radio communication device (buoy), Charles Philip Amidon, Navy, 2009-08-18, -
7559288 Recoverable optical fiber tethered buoy assembly, Charles Philip Amidon, Navy,2009-07-14, -
6711095 Expenable/recoverable voice and data communications system buoy, Danny Daniels, Navy, 2004-03-23, - AN/BRT-6?
432 patents assigned to the US Navy relating to "VLF", 99 Navy patents with "extremely low frequency"
Ref 45. Expendable Communication Buoys - Gabler Naval Technology borchure (GABLER-Naval_ECB_2021-05_EN.pdf)
Ref 46. Broadband Passive Sonar Tracking, Brinkmann & Hurka, 2009 (cd-2397.pdf) - Atlas Elektronik  - ISUS 100 brochure (ISUS100.pdf)
Ref 47. OEG Report NO. 51, ASW in WOrld War II, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 1946 -
Part 1 History of Antisubmarine Operations
Part 2 Antisubmarine Measures and their Effectiveness
Part 3
Ref 48. Steel Boats Iron Men - Submarine League, 1994, 208pgs, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1563110818 - SQR-17 SONAR  Signal Processing Set info
Ref 49. The Warzone: Watch A P-3 Submarine Hunter’s Sonobuoy Dramatically Transform Once In The Water - YouTube: P3 Sonobuoy Deployment, 1:12 - SSQ-101?
Ref 50. Clever WWII Method to Track a Submerged Submarines speed, 10:30 - Sonobuoy - some data about range of detection. 
Ref 51. The incredible Sinking of Japanese Submarine I-52 during WWII - A Case Study, 15:16 - TBF Avenger (Wiki) carrying CRT-1 Sonobuoys, Mk 54 Depth Charges (BulletPicker) and a Fido Mk24 (Wiki) sink the I-52 (Wiki) - includes audio record of this attack.
Ref 52. Airborne Laser Mine Detection Systems (95_Cassidy_Sept_1995.pdf), 156 pgs - Ocean Water LIDAR (OWL) sub detection & Magic Lantern mine detection systems
Ref 53.
NATO Designed Magnetic Noisemakers to Track Soviet Submarines. The Plan Failed. -
Ref 54. Sighted Sub Sink Same: the United States Navy's Air Campaign Against the U-boat, Alan C. Carey, 2019, ISBN: 978-1-61200-783-0 -
Ref 55. The Scary Techniques Japan and US Use to Detect Enemy Submarines, 16:02 - sonobuoys - errors, like showing an AWACS plane while talking about the P-3.
Ref 56. LDM #257: Magnetic Anomaly Detector AN/ASQ-81(V) - Part 1: Teardown, 10:29 -
Ref 57. LDM #258: Magnetic Anomaly Detector AN/ASQ-81(V) - Part 2: Static Pressure Sensor, 8:05 - IEEE Trans on Inst & Meas, Vol 40, No. 4 Aug 1991: High accuracy magnetic measurements with the ASQ-81 scalar magnetometer, Brian S. Bourgeois, J. H. Ross, William E. Avera
Ref 57a. Thin Film Magnetic Sensor, AD0733702.pdf, Dec 1971, Lockheed, ONR, 65 pgs comparison to ASQ-81; Google Scholar search;
Ref 57b. First International Symposium of the Society of Madmen, June 1982, 48pgs, ADA217819.pdf , List of attendees,
Ref 57c. A Limited Analysis of some Nonacoustic Antisubmarine Warfare Systems, Daly, 1994, 55 pgs, ADA281747.pdf, - MAD, Hydrodynamics, LASER, ESM
Ref 57d. Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: App T, Selected Weapon Systems, 1992, 237 pgs, ADA249391.pdf, Munitions
Ref 58. LDM #259: Magnetic Anomaly Detector AN/ASQ-81(V) - Part 3: Helium discharge lamp, 9:57 -
Ref 59. Hunter Killers: The Dramatic Untold Story of the Royal Navy's most secret service, by Iain Ballantyne, 2014, ISBN: 1409144186
Ref 60. Texas Instruments Made a Computer (& It Failed), 40:01 - @4:25: how TI got into the MAD business, Pat Haggerty patents,
2857510 Container suitable for dropping from aircraft, Patrick E Haggerty, Robert W Olson (oil seismic), Richard L Congdon (oil seismometer), Eugene J Toomey, Jr John T Thomson, Richard E Byers, TI, 1958-10-21, - Sonobuoy?

***** Wiki: Invention of the integrated circuit *****
2727840 Methods of producing semiconductive bodies, Gordon K Teal, Bell Labs, 1955-12-20, - making transistors
2892931 Transistor radio apparatus, Richard C Koch, IDEA Inc, App: 1955-03-25, Pub: 1959-06-30, - Regency TR-1 (Wiki) NPN Germanium (not Silicon) Four transistor radio - 2820890 Chassis -
2978314 Compositions for electrical resistance films, Lawrence B Krauss, Fairchild Camera, App: 1956-03-05, Pub: 1961-04-04, -
2978364 Automatic control system for precision resistor manufacture, Blaustein Aaron, Fairchild Camera, App: 1956-03-05, Pub: 1961-04-04, - Glass bell jar & sputtering
**** Fairchild has patents for photolighographic equipment used for printing newspapers & magazines that would be the basis for step & repeat semi printing.****
2990501 Novel header of semiconductor devices, Cornelison Boyd, James H Eddleston, Arthur D Evans, Jr Mark Shepherd, Robert L Trent, Jr Elmer A Wolff, TI,
3025589 Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices, Jean A Hoerni, Fairchild Camera, App: 1959-05-01, Pub: 1962-03-20, -
3138743 Miniaturized electronic circuits, Jack S Kilby, TI, 1964-06-23, - interconnects by hand wire bonding - not photolithography like Fairchild.
3264493 Semiconductor circuit module for a high-gain, high-input impedance amplifier, John E Price, Fairchild Camera, App: 1963-10-01, Pub: 1966-08-02, - Silicon oxide used as insulating layer for photolighography wiring.
3819921 Miniature electronic calculator, J Kilby, J Merryman, Tassel J Van, TI, App: 1972-12-21, Pub: 1974-06-25, -

YouTube

ASW To Catch a Shadow - Anti-submarine Warfare, P-3 Orion, USS Scorpion 20850 HD - 29 minutes
Goblin on the Doorstep - ASW Anti-submarine Warfare 20870 HD - 29 minutes -Collecting microscope slide from early Bathythermograph,
ASW: Tracking the Threat 1982 US Navy Training Film; Anti-Submarine Warfare - 23 min - Launching Bathythermograph -
BT data after launch of BT
BT data after launch of
          Bathythermograph,
U.S. NAVY SONOBUOY INDICATOR GROUP AN/AQA-1 ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE FILM 51114 (28:53) -  17.5 minutes @2:16: ANB-H-1 Headphones -
Works with:
R-316A Dual receive channel sonobuoy receiver - 16 frequency channels
 ARR-26
SSQ-15 Range only (sends out pings every 5 seconds)
SSQ-20 DIFAR
SSQ-2b non-directional (Explosive type)
U.S. NAVY MK-84 SONOBUOY TRAINING FILM SIGNAL UNDERWATER SOUND (SUS) 81204  - 12 minutes - Sound Underwater Signal Mk 84 Mod 0. Non Explosive,  can be set to one of 4 preset codes. 2.95 & 3.55 kHz: can be heard with: AN/BQR-2, AN/BQR-7, AN/UQC underwater telephone on the third harmonic (aprox. 10 kHz)
Coordinated Anti-Submarine Warfare - SONAR, Sonobuoys, USS Stein, USS Badger 20890 HD - 19 minutes - about fleet operations
ASW The Submariners - USS Shark, Anti-submarine Warfare Maneuvers 20800 HD - 29 minutes - @12:22: USS Holland First US sub
Hunter Killer Anti-Submarine Wwarfare U.S. Navy Film 30102 - 21 minutes - Edward R. Murrow (Wiki) - Prop planes
Blind Man's Bluff - History Channel Documentary - 1hr 35min - Some factual errors, see: SOSUS
HD Historic Stock Footage AERIAL ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE - @4:34 MAD chart output,
The Guide To Submarines Documentary - welldone
Inside a Navy anti-Submarine Lockheed P-3 Orion Aircraft - Moffett Field Museum -14 -
Visualizing Humpback Whale Calls using DIFAR Sonobuoy -
Modern Sonar Sounds and other Sounds of the Sea - LOFAR
Lockheed P-3 Orion Training Mission- Part 1, Part 2 -
P-3 Orion 50th Anniversary -
Project Tinkertoy (IC Precursor) 1953 US Navy; Automated Manufacturing of Modular Electronics - @4:43 shows Sonobuoy (or?) -
Submarine Communications: "Signal, Underwater Sound (SUS) Mark 84" US Navy Training Film -
P3 Orion SSQ-801E BARRA Sonobuoy deployment (1:28) - deploys into a 3 dimensional structure
Greyhounds of the Sea - History of the U.S. Navy Destroyer 80260 , 26:53 - narration by Jack Web. (new movie "Greyhound", 2020 IMDB -
Sub Brief: A Beginner's Guide #4: Target Motion Analysis (TMA) -(Wiki)
Moffett Field: Finding Submarines by P-3 Orion, Sonobuoys AN/AQA-5 Acoustic Charts Recorder Moffett Field Museum, 1:16
Moffett Field: Finding Submarines by Lockheed P-3 Orion and Sonobuoys, 1:39 - shows some sonobuoys
Moffett Field: Inside a Navy anti-Submarine Lockheed P-3 Orion Aircraft, 8:12 - tour -
Moffett Field: Sonar & underwater sounds of Whales, Submarines, Torpedo launch - 3:26 - a computer simulation using actual sounds + sonogram.
Smarter Every Day: How Sonar Works (Submarine Shadow Zone) - cites RP 33 (Ref 33)
What Happens if You’re Hit by Sonar?, 8:26 - has examples of: @3:22 SQS-53, @3:27 SQS-510, @3:38 SQS-26,

Related

Aircraft
AN/ARR-26 Sonobuoy Bathythermograph Receiver - this is a dual tube type receiver that fed the AQA-1 Indicator Group (chart plotter with frequency & bearing waterfall displays)
Astronomy - UFOs - YouTube: Richard Muller Physics Lecture 11 - Waves 1
Cars
CRT-1B Sonobuoy
SSQ-36 Bathythermograph
SSQ-53A DIFAR sonobuoy
SSQ-57A LOFAR Sonobuoy
T-347/SRT Buoy, Radio Transmitting - sends SOS
CRT-3 BC-778 Gibson Girl Survival Beacon Transmitter SCR-578
Helmholtz Coil
   (Helmholtz Resonator)
Magnetics 
Navigation
MIL-S-5807A Sextant, Aircraft, Periscopic (used on the P-3, see Hickory Aviation Museum virtual tour below)
Radiosonde - PIBAL Theodolite - The weather stations lifted by Pilot Balloons have a very strong similarity to sonobuoys.
Submarines
Torpedoes
Western Union DeskFax - made this page mainly looking for the paper used on the AQA

Links

Hickory Aviation Museum - P3-C interactive tour - Grab circle behind pilot's seat and look up to see this periscope sextant mounted in ceiling of P-3.
The Cutting Edge ASWS-3 Viking  1980 VS-24 (23:50 training video)
Sub Killers Part 11960 Walter Cronkite S2F Tracker - USS Randolf exercise
Sub Killers  Part 2 S2F -
Sippican's expendable probes - temperature, sound velocity, conductivity, etc.
Sonar Training Record Series D16: training sonobuoy audio from records
Expendable Radio Sonobuoy Training Records, 15P3: training sonobuoy audio from records
USS Pampanito Operating Equipment:  sounds
Net and Boom Defenses - Ordnance Pamphlet 636A June 1944
Welcome to USS PAMPANITO (SS-383) - SS-383 Sonobuoy web pages - Manual for Expendable Radio Sono-Buoy Training (phonograph) Records -
Chapter 16 SOFAR, Harbor Defense, and other SONAR Systems - Fig 16-9 shows the above hydrophone. - JM-4 sonobuoy schematic dia -
Naval SONAR -
WiNRADiO AX-61S Sonobuoy Telemetry Antenna- 135  to 175 MHz.
Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory. Records of the Underwater Sound Laboratory : an inventory 
OEG REPORT No. 51, ANTISUBMARINE WARFARE IN WORLD WAR II, Charles M. Sternhell and Alan M. Thorndike 1946 - links to contents do  NOT work
Scientists create the loudest possible (underwater) sound - SLAC: In brief: Record-shattering underwater sound - cavitation puts an upper limit on how loud sound in water an be.
University of Bergen - Sonobuoys - to use SSQ-57 LOFAR for scientific use with modified ICOM 8500 receiver
Acoustical Society of America - Search for Sonobuoy
1979
4109232
4114135 Acoustic device, Clarence J. Funk, Navy, 1978-09-12, - vertical line array, doppler, LOFAR
4121190
4114137 Directional Sonobuoy
4013756
IUSS*Caesar Alumni Association - Articles & Briefings - Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) = SOSUS + SURTASS
PRC68, Alpha Index, Products for SaleBrooke's Military Information page -

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