[ARC5] Unknown Bendix Meter - more

[raydio862 at verizon.net]

Not so, the Doolittle device consisted of two vibrating reeds side by side that responded to the modulating frequency received from dual overlapping RF beams.  If both reeds vibrated at the same level, he would be “on the beam”.  He used a radio made by Radio Frequency Labs (RFL) that became Aircraft Radio Corp. in Boonton, NJ.

Ray

 

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Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 8:51 AM
To: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com>; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; arc5 at mailman.qth.net; main at Army-Radios.groups.io
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Unknown Bendix Meter - more

 

Looks a lot like one of the instruments Doolittle used in his first blind landing flights in 1927 (I think)

 - Gordon White

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Subject: [ARC5] Unknown Bendix Meter - more
From: Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com <mailto:Kargo_cult at msn.com> >
Date: Sun, September 12, 2021 3:06 pm
To: "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net <mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> " <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net <mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> >,
"arc5 at mailman.qth.net <mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net> " <arc5 at mailman.qth.net <mailto:arc5 at mailman.qth.net> >,
"main at Army-Radios.groups.io <mailto:main at Army-Radios.groups.io> " <main at Army-Radios.groups.io <mailto:main at Army-Radios.groups.io> >

Some months back I queried here about an unknown Bendix meter. No one was able to identify the specific use.

Today, again triaging stuff, I removed the packing from the box. Underneath was a folded single page instruction

on how to use the meter for use in a "beam antenna direction indicator", along with 3 paper, not decal, replacement

face scales for the meter. I think it would be a bunch of work to open the meter and actually place the new scale. 

Apparently this instruction and the optional replacement meter faces were supplied by some surplus dealer looking

to move a bunch of these meters by inventing a possible use. 

This unknown meter is available free for postage only. If no takers from these groups, will bring it to next hamfest

and put it with other free items. 

-Hue Miller

Newport, Oregon 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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