****Re: [Milsurplus] Re: DF-ing & Earhardt/Noonan

Sat, 24 May 2003 22:08:54 -0700

another weird df question....

dos the  I-82a radio compass indicator work with the arn 7? setup?
found one  in an incoming shipment today....

Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Foley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Re: DF-ing & Earhardt/Noonan

> 
> > Maybe they just didn't have enuff experience with
> > this.
> ++++++++
> This has always been my biggest concern with radio
> equipment at that period, they would have HAD to have
> faith, not only in the equipment but also in the
> technique.  At that time it was all new to most
> people, and NOT fully understood by many.
> 
> Geez, even air travel wasn't all that common then.
> 
> Under those conditions it would have been all to easy
> to blow off the equipment as not working right,
> instead of trying to understand its quirks.
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> > I found it could be very frustrating to try to get a
> > null
> > sometimes, as the null depth might constantly
> > change,
> > but if you were persistent, didn't give up, you
> > could
> > often tell the general direction of the null within
> > say,
> > just guessing here, 15 degrees. IF they had gotten
> > this, then switched to "DIRECTION" on the DU,
> > to engage the sense circuit, they could have gotten
> > the right direction too, which would have helped
> > them
> > at least fly in the right direction and general
> > bearing,
> > instead of wondering if they were going / coming.
> > Hue
> 
> 
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