[Milsurplus] Lighthouse radio beacons of the past

[B. Smith]

  The demise of the majority of the NDB's have been  actually a kind of 
waste. It was a simple system and allowed a small airport on a limited 
budget to have an instrument approach that allowed aircraft to fly down 
to  a low visibility and ceiling such as 500 feet and 1 mile visibility 
- no it did not allow you to legally fly down to 200 feet and 1/2  mile 
(RVR2400) but if you fly take a look in your log book and see what the 
weather was for most of your approaches. The NDB approach did not  
utilize satellites  and used simple equipment on the aircraft and on the 
ground.  The NDB ground antenna was often just a simple tower or single 
telephone pole  antenna.  Maintenance for the transmitter was minimal 
and the antenna did not require any phasing. And the best part was it 
worked in heavy rain and heavy snow  fall.  The NDB system has joined  
Loran C in the technical grave yard where we often put stuff that 
actually works and is reliable.
k4che

On 12/2/2021 10:24 PM, David Stinson wrote:
> Not so long ago in North Texas, you could have logged
> that many at noon on a summer day.
>
> On 12/2/2021 1:52 PM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
>> I have 22 Texas NDBs logged since Dec 2019. There are currently 37 
>> listed as active.
>>
>> Mark K3MSB
>>
>