[ARC5] Navigation Use of Low Freq Command Sets

[Bob Macklin]

I was wondering? I have some cockpit photos of some early fighters and I see 
no RDF gauge.

In Korea (1950/1954) we had ARN-6 radio nav sets in our aircraft. In the 
fighters the loop was in the canopy behind the seat.

But they were not used during the war except for flights to Japan. All 
flights were VFR!

>From sunup to sundown we had 2 aircraft on strip alert except during bad 
weather. No one flew then in bad weather!

We also had 2 M-16 antiaircraft halftracks at each end of the runway. But 
they were not manned at night.

"Bed Check Charlie" came through most evenings right at sundown!

Bob Macklin
K5MYJ
Seattle, Wa.
"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 11:04 AM
Subject: [ARC5] Navigation Use of Low Freq Command Sets


> For fighter aircraft the 190-550 KHZ sets were used with the AN ranges and 
> for receiving control tower instructions and thus needed no directional 
> display or loop antenna.  And while the BC-453's were not installed in the 
> fighters equipped with the SCR-522 in Europe it appears that the "Detrola" 
> (generic name for the Detrola Model 438 and BC-1206-B and C sets) were 
> used for LF beacon navigation there, based on pilots' description of 
> navigation techniques.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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