[ARC5] Airplane radios in jeeps

[J. Forster]

>>Yes, it does look more like an MN-26, although I thought the control
>> boxes
>>were squarer for the 26 than the RA-10.
>
> That's definitely a MN-26 control box on the right.  I don't know what
> the box is to the left.
>
> The unit above the MN-26...I've seen somewhere before.  Didn't Canada have
> some aircraft transmitters (AT-??) that look like what's pictured?

I think they were TA-xx to go with the RA-10s. All by Bendix, but I don't
know the Tx line.

>>I didn't know the MN-26 was much of a communication receiver, being
>>primarily a Radio Compass though.
>
> Two versions of the MN-26 had a communications band in place of the third
> RDF band.
>
> MN-26LB - Band 3 is 2.9 to 6.0 MHz. The AN/ARN-11 was a MN-26LB.
> MN-26Y  - Band 3 is 3.7 to 7.0 MHz (IIRC.  I'm going from memory.)
>
> Mike / KK5F

I was not referring to the frequency range, but more to AGC. A DF set has
different AGC requirements (no AGC) than a communication receiver. I don't
remember if the MN-26 has an AGC or not and I can't access mine at the
moment.

One of the two meters MIGHT be an "S" meter for the MN-26, an IN-??, with
the right hand zero.

-John

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