[Milsurplus] Re: APN-7 inquiry

Unserviceable but Repairable cosmoline at ba-watch.org
Mon Oct 4 11:46:16 EDT 2004


Hey Jim u sed....

> True, your posts are enjoyable, even funny.  

Thanks!  That's my nature & I believe it ya can't get a smile from
something, find another something.

> You must spend a lot of time to set up the joke.

Uh uh.  Most of my time spent debugging spelling, structure, etc.  

Now on the 

> Case in point, what are the ARN-7 "do-pretties" that interest you?

I posted this---->

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} Have one here that I noted in the "One-off" thread a month back.  It
} began life as a Philco APN-7 & was reworked as a APN-21XR/RT-21 by MIT
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} Presence of 446 cavity & 2K28 evidence S-band intent
} 
} Parsch web site sez APN-7 was a used with APS-2 S-band (3 gig) search
} radar on, mostly, seaplanes.
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} Only gess is they'd turn it on when in water to lead surface vessels
} or other acft. in for help.
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} But why associate it w. Loran?  Someone here knows
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}   Marty
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  <<<<sheesh, did I say aRn-7?  If so, no slur meant on JAN name
      for SCR-269.

      If it is a seaplane Eureca, that enuf explanation fer
      scarcity?

      I know a sharp Coronado pilot who was a "wire head" & if
      still alive, wud know>>>>


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