[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] AN/ARN-11...Anyone seen one?

[Mike Hanz]

Mike Morrow wrote:

>The AN/ARN-11 is the official JAN nomenclature for the Bendix MN-26 RDF, but not just any MN-26.  It applies to a special model of the MN-26 that in 40 years of collecting this type of stuff I've never seen, or heard of anyone having...the MN-26LB.
>
>Apparently the person specifying the coverage didn't see any value to being able to monitor or home in on any coastal maritime Morse stations (which would require 420 to 520 kc coverage).
>Band 3 coverage might be useful for HF monitoring.  I believe that USAAF aircraft which likely carried the AN/ARN-11 also likely used SCR-522 VHF command sets.  No HF gear was on board other than the AN/ARN-11. 
>Has anyone on the list ever actually run across such an animal? 
>

That's an astute question.  It's the one I finally found after much 
looking, Mike -  http://aafradio.org/flightdeck/navigation.htm  Sort of 
an arcane version, and the control box was even harder to locate, but as 
you said, it was the 'official' ARN-11, so it seemed worth the pursuit.  
I'm not so sure about the LB/522 association.  Any background on that 
assumption?

 - 73,
Mike