[GreenKeys] Early aviation radio history

[craig andrews]

For any pilots out there, there are still some lighted airway beacons in Montana which were the predecessors to these AN radio airway beacons.  However, Montana has pulled the maintenance funding for all the beacons except a few that are easily accessed.  So if you want to fly these beacons before they are gone, now is the time.  I can tell you they can be really really hard to find and more than once ATC has asked what I was doing flying in circles.

Regards
Craig N2414T

> On Dec 31, 2019, at 12:22 PM, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Since the development of aviation and radio were so closely related, I thought maybe others would enjoy this first-person history written by the daughter of an Airways Keeper in the Lighthouse Service of the US Department of Commerce in the 1930s.   Her father was one of three full-time staff at what would later become known as a Flight Service Station, including maintaining the four-course radio range.  There's not a lot of technical detail but the historic documents and photos provide a glimpse into the life of a civil service worker and his family in a bygone age.   I've pulled a few pics out to show the radio and tty equipment but the whole pdf document (link is at bottom of the page) is worth reading.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/w9mtekg
> 
> 73, and HNY!.
> 
> Bob W9RAN
> 
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