[ARC5] Single Transmitter Single Receiver 274-N in P-51-C

[jeepp]

Nope, your recollections certainly jibe with what we had moving into the late 50's and onward.  At Dover, I/ we had and sort of used one of the last A/N ranges, the one located at Millville NJ (MIV).  The Adcock function was converted to a standard FAA "H" beacon probably in 1963.  By then, the T-6 (your SNJ) had been replaced with the T-34.  The primary jet for UPT was the T-33 and the T-37.  Advanced was the T-38.  But, to the nav/com story, VHF was much reduced with the removal of the ARC-3 and ARC-49.  The ARC-27 was the comm gold-standard for a good while.  The ARN-14 and ARN-12 (?) was the VOR/LOC and ILS.  You remember the ID-249, I'm sure.....hi!!   ARN-21 TACAN, ARN-6 ADF.  The trash-haulers had HF, LORAN, etc.  But, that was then.... One last factoid, camping on the Appalachian Trail in probably 1958, there was still a functional rotating airway beacon near Paw Paw West Virginia.  Jeep K3HVG


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-------- Original message --------
From: Michael Bittner <mmab at cox.net> 
Date: 5/3/18  21:20  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>, arc5 at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Single Transmitter Single Receiver 274-N in P-51-C 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2018 17:06
Subject: [ARC5] Single Transmitter Single Receiver 274-N in P-51-C


> Mike / KK5F
>
> PS:  Were there any A-N ranges still operating when you began flying?  I 
> was alive when they were still around, but I wasn't listening to much 
> radio.  :-)

Mike, I started out in the SNJ with R-23/ARC-5 for hearing the tower's LF 
transmissions and T-19/ARC-5 for transmitting on HF back to the tower.  Both 
were fixed tuned and not for any navigational use.  Moving on to formation 
flying, night flying, dog fighting, air-to-air gunnery, glide bombing, VFR 
cross country and carrier landings were all done in SCR-522 equiped SNJs. 
Again, no navigational use was made of any radios that I remember.  Moving 
on to multiengine training in the SNB and PBM-5, I learned all the systems 
in place at that time which were LF Beacons, 4-Course Ranges (MN-26), VAR 
(Visal/Aural Range), VOR, ILS, and LORAN A (APN-4) and GCA radar guided 
approaches. Later on I flew the T-28B and then got jet qualified in the 
TV-2.  Both were equiped with ARC-27s with VHF directional antennas plus 
LF-DF, VOR/ILS, and TACAN radios.  At least that's how I remember it, 
corrections welcome.

Mike, W6MAB 


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