[ARC5] NDB IDs

[John McCarty]

Not to disagree with anyone, growing up in the Midwest in the 70's and 
getting interested in radios around that time,
I would swear I heard the A/N stuff back then using a R-11or BC-348. I 
think I even had a FL-8 that I would use. Does anyone
know, was there a transmitter for A/N in Lisle Il., next to the campus 
of Illinois Benedictine (Now Benedictine Univ)? I seem
to remember a smallish one story brick building with an inverted white 
cone on top that was another story tall.



Or maybe I'm just losing it.



73


John n9hrt











On 10/31/2012 4:09 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Jeep wrote:
>
>> In the old days, of course, before the VOR system came along, NDBs and
>> Adcock ranges were the bee's knees.  I recall as a kid, and a new ham
>> in the late 50's, listening to the A/N Adcock range near Millville NJ.
>> In fact, that range was one of the last ones on the East Coast to be
>> decommissioned.
> In my last posting, I lamented being a few years too late for the era
> of US Adcock ranges.  I read somewhere that they were all gone in the
> USA by 1961.
>
>> BTW, I've still got an LF/MF airways chart from the 40's.  Its neat
>> to see how it was done in days of yore.....
> I have several of such charts from the late 1930s to the late 1950s.
> It's great to think back on a time that that the most essential piece
> of avionics, the one piece that you'd have if you could only have one,
> was the simple 200 to 400 kHz beacon band receiver which allowed one
> to follow the Adcock A-N ranges across the country without a loop antenna
> and to get terminal information and sometimes weather information from
> broadcasts made on 278 kHz or thereabouts.  Add a 3105 (later 3023.5)
> kHz AM transmitter and you could talk to the tower.  Add a MF loop
> antenna and BC band coverage and a whole new menu of direction finding
> was available, not to mention BC band entertainment.
>
> There were many all-in-one sets that did all of that shortly after WWII.
> The GE AS-1B was one of the best.  At $200 in 1946, it cost the equivalent
> of $2400 2012 dollars.  Even the little Motorola Airboy beacon band dry
> battery set at $30 was the equivalent of today's $350.  I'd have loved
> to listen to 278 and 3105 kHz from that era.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
>
>
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