[Milsurplus] Mystery Project-- Can you ID the Radio?

[John Hutchins]

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And the same fate can be said for the light house [-}  except that when 
the light houses were shutdown
they became prime real estate in scenic locations.  I wonder about the 
antenna fields used by the LORAN stations.
They may make a great ham station location,  I have an idea.....hmm....
Hutch


On 1/29/2010 8:50 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> I also keep two useless APN-9.
>>      
> I still have the one I purchased from John Meshna Co. in 1976.
> It represents a fairly important and long-used radio navigation
> set.  The design is admirable for its era, which I believe includes
> the very late WWII period.
>
> The only ship on which I served that used the R-65/APN-9 was the
> Hr.Ms. Amsterdam (Destroyer D819, Royal Netherlands Navy), in 1973.
> But it wasn't used in the north Atlantic...there, the Decca Navigator
> System was far better than LORAN A.
>
> I'd like to add the AN/APN-9 to my AN/ARC-8 (AN/ART-13A, AN/ARR-11)
> if I can ever come up with the mount and connectors.  I've got the
> CU-92/APN splitter.  Some of that is shown on some AN/ARC-8 wiring
> diagrams.
>
> In my dreams I'd like to have an AN/ARC-21, paired with the AN/ARR-36
> aux MF/HF receiver and the AN/APN-70 LORAN A set!  That's the next
> generation of USAF MF/HF communications and LORAN gear after the
> AN/ARC-8 and AN/APN-9.
>
> It looks like the various LF hyperbolic radio navigation systems
> have run their course.  The last three were ALL displaced by GPS:
>
> LORAN A   Shut down in 1980 (in North America)
> OMEGA     Shut down in 1997
> DECCA     Shut down in 2000
> LORAN C   To be shut down in February 2010
>
> GPS also displaced the U.S. Navy's TRANSIT/NAVSAT system, whose
> principal purpose for more than 32 years was to provide position
> information to western ballistic missile submarines.  Its navigation
> function ceased in 1996.
>
> I just hope the GPS system is never disrupted...there won't be much
> in the way of backup radio navigation systems a few weeks from
> now, when LORAN C dies.  (I'm ignoring other sat nav systems that
> are run by non-western countries.)
>
> Mike / KK5F
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