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

[Jack Antonio]

The guy in the back row meekly raises his hand and says "Me".

It was a case of the tail wagging the dog, Fair had the control
boxes some years ago, and for some reason I bought one. Then the
radio itself showed up on eBay about 4 or 5 years ago.  Looks like
it may have been un-issued, but it spent too many years as a doorstop,
quite a bit of scratched paint and a few dents in the case.

Did any of these sets have a nomenclature tag saying AN/ARR-11? And did
the receiver have an R-???/ARN-11 number?

Jack

Jack Antonio WA7DIA
scr287 at sbcglobal.net


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.
> 
> The frequency coverage of the three bands on the "LB" model are unlike that of any other MN-26 models.
> Band 1:    200 to   410 kc
> Band 2:    550 to 1200 kc
> Band 3:  2900 to 6000 kc.
> 
> 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? 
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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