[Milsurplus] Cluster Beacon

[J Forster]

Marty,
Your cryptic posts are VERY hard to read.

The ARN-1 is almost identical to the APN-1 and is a Radio Altimiter
(difference is mostly 1 altitude range, not two). It's FM CW at around
450 MHz.

-John



Unserviceable but Repairable wrote:

> That was the name of the system about which B17s orbited while
> getting entire formation airborn.  Have never heard term before
>
> Cluster beacon is a term used for a russian svc. that may be
> used for propagation tests today.  That's all I cud divine.
>
> Had asked B17 gunner fella if YE-ARN-1 might have been used to
> find home fields just miles apart.  He said he was never so trained
> but hearsay was they'd use same formation 'cluster beacons' to
> find home.
>
> Air traffic over rural England must have been amazing in '44.
> AMAZING!
>
> And they always found home unless weathered out whereupon they'd
> plop down in neighboring base
>
> A-N radio ranges take lotsa real estate but may have been the cluster
> beacon
>
>    'rm