[ARC5] Bendix MN-26LB documentation

[Mike Morrow]

Ben wrote:

> Some time ago, I came across manuals for the MN-26 receiver on the 
> e-place.  Inside one of the manuals for the MN-26A and C variants was an 
> addenda for the MN-26LB variant.  This one is unusual, as the third band 
> covers 2.9 to 6 MHz rather than the top end of AM BC.
>
> Documentation on the MN-26 A/C is not plentiful and is non-existent best 
> I can tell for the LB.
>
> So I've scanned the LB addenda and uploaded it here:
>
> http://www.kd5byb.net/mn-26/MN26LB_Addenda_b.pdf
>
> As I get around to it, I'll scan the other two.

Thanks, Ben.  The effort you and several others here exert to make such material available is a real gift to the community.  I would try it myself if I knew better how to create a pdf for a manual that did not wind up 50 Mbytes or so...but I'm not there yet.

FWIW, the MN-26LB was adopted by the Signal Corps during WWII under the JAN nomenclature of AN/ARN-11.  The Signal Corps also used other MN-26x models, but only the LB model got JAN nomenclature (on paper).  Only commercial markings apprear on the components, but full Signal Corps operation and maintenance instruction books (distinct from Bendix manuals) specifically for AN/ARN-11 were issued.  The components will have Signal Corps acceptance stamps, and every MN-26LB I've ever seen has appeared by those stamps to be part of AN/ARN-11.

Mike / KK5F