the Phantom half of the screen name is from my time in the Marines, working on, you guessed it, F-4 Phantom airborne fire control radar(sat up in the nose). Aero-1A to start, then they transitioned to Awg-10A, then B etc etc...As we used to say, I aint 'fraid of no Hawg!
Couple of Aero-1A's first radar system the F-4's had, dangling out of the nose of the bird
It slid on a rail on top in and out for ease of access to the LRU's (Line Replaceble Units) which is what the line apes would pull off and send up to us Intermediate Level types to work on. In th first pic, the antenna is pinned in place to prevent movement, in the second not pinned, and with no hydraulic pressure on the bird, it gets kinda floppy 
The display bird out front of MCAS Yuma, where I spent a lot of my time in the Corps. Hate the place with a passion too. Miserable, hot, dusty....blech!VMFAT-101 was the only F-4 squadron on base. They had an A-4 squadron, and later a Harrier squadron or two.
An AWG-10, the HAWG! On a maintennance Stand. The line apes could put the entire system on it while they put a whole new radar in the bird to get it flying again. They usually DIDN'T, cause that is one heavy radar system, but they could. Gave full access to all the LRUs.
Any more questions, please feel free to ask! And I speak a lot more spanish than my Native American appearance would suggest. My mother grew up in the Panama CZ (Canal Zone) altho she was French Canadian by birth. Grandpa was Army Corps of engineers stationed there. She was bilingual, and when she would get really upset would switch to spanish. That was how i KNEW I was in deep doo doo! And after 30 years in Yuma, on the border with Mexico, a lot tends to rub off
Pat☺
