[ARC5] ZB discussion!

[Michael Bittner]

Reminds me of the time a fellow paid me to ferry a small single seater with 
no radios of any kind from Chicago to Los Angeles.  It seemed that every 
town in the Midwest had a river, a highway, a railroad and a grain elevator 
in more or less the same orientation.  The only way I could tell one town 
from another was to fly low enough to read the name off the grain elevator. 
BTW, it seems to me that there are very few white rotating beacons left 
except right on airports, but there are plenty of red obstruction lights and 
even flashing strobe lights on the tops of tall things such as water towers. 
Mike W6MAB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Macklin" <macklinbob at msn.com>
To: <gewhite at crosslink.net>; "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio 
equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:35 PM
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> Every town with a water tower has one!
>
> You can still fly by them if you want!
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa.
> "Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "gordon white" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> To: <kgordon2006 at verizon.net>; "Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio
> equipment." <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] ZB discussion!
>
>
>> you can still see an occasional airways beacon, mostly dark, rusting and
>> covered with vines. There is one not far from Rt. 17 in Gloucester,
>> Virginia.
>> - Gordon White