[ARC5] F-86 Radios

[Mike Everette]

I tend to doubt that jet fighters had the ARN-7.  The football antenna would have real problems surviving the speeds in a jet environment.  The ARN-6 was probably the radio of choice; the little "black dot" on the tip of the F-80/T-33 nose is the radome for the ARN-6 loop.

73

Mike
W4DSE

--- On Fri, 12/21/12, Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robert  Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [ARC5] F-86 Radios
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Friday, December 21, 2012, 7:31 PM
> My F-86F pilot's manual, dated 1960,
> shows the ARC-3 as applicable to F-865F-1 through F-86F-15
> aircraft not yet modified by T.O.  Those same type
> aircraft modified by T.O. had ARC-33.  F-86F-25 and
> later aircraft had ARC-27.
> 
> Most aircraft had ARN-6 but some had that removed and
> replaced by ARN-21 TACAN.    
> 
> Most had APX-6 or 6A IFF but some were modified with
> APX-25.
> 
> Of course, all had APG-30 gunsight radar.
> 
> So if you are talking Gabby in Korea, flying F-86A through
> early F-86F, it likely would be ARC-3, ARN-6, and APX-6 as
> well as the APG-30.
> 
> As a comparison, the F-80A had ARC-3, ARN-6 or ARN-7, and
> some early ones had BC-1206 instead of the radio compasses.
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
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