[Milsurplus] AN/CPN-6 and AN/CPN-8

[Cletus W Whitaker]

de WB2CPN South Central Pennsylvania    2002.09.26

The CPN-6 had a short mast for mounting on a small metal hut, but the
CPN-6's I've seen in the USAF all were "fixed" nav aids, and used a 20'
wood telephone type pole.  The antenna was two vertical colinear tubes
approximately 3" in diameter, and approximately 3" feet tall overall.  The
waveguide(?) came up the pole and attached to these two tubes where they
joined about half way between the top and the bottom.   I am looking
in my collection of USAF nav aid pictures for a CPN-6.  Maybe I'll find it.
Last time I maintained a CPN-6 was at Andrews AFB in 1954, but the last
time I saw one was Okinawa in 1961.  And, some trivia, they were used in
WWII in Europe as part of the "Pathfinder" bombing system.  In the Battle
of The Bulge they were made mobile, and hauled around very near to the
the German lines.                       73   Clete