[ARC5] ZB discussion!

[Michael Bittner]

Which reminds me that the YG transmitters need not to have been turned on 
till some time after the aircraft had reached their target destinations. 
Mike W6MAB


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From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
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> And military airfields in WWII had those beacons on the top of their 
> towers.
> They were only turned on when necessary for incoming aircraft. They were 
> not
> left on for use by the enemy!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
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>
>> Mike, I'm in general agreement with everything you have said, and BTW,
>> belated thanks for posting the link to the manual.  However, I will put
>> one
>> more angel on the pinhead by reminding that the first system of aircraft
>> homing beacons in this country operated at angstrom wavelengths and the
>> beacons were installed at points along designated flight routes.  Pilots
>> "navigated" along the route in the dark by visually homing from one 
>> beacon
>> to the next.  Mike W6MAB
>>