Could it be an old OMEGA system. That was decommissioned only about 5
years ago. As I understand it, this was the original radio navigation
system for airplanes know as "Highways in the Skies". It was low
frequency. The pilot would listen to the selected frequency and hear a
steady tone if he was right on the highway, or di-dah ("A") if on one
side or dah-dit ("N") on the other.

Just a guess.


Spockstuto wrote:
Don't laugh but the FAA has stuff this old still out in the system.
A lot of NDB sites still use ancient equipment.



wrote:

I recently received this large single-frequency transmitter
from an elderly gentleman who used to be a ham radio operator.

I have not been able to pin down exactly what it is. Some
folks have given the opinion that it may be an old VOR transmitter.

I'm wondering if someone can identify it? Give a date range?
or any other information?

pictures:
http://www.yipyap.com/radio_stuff/VOR/index.htm

Chris

p.s. I know some of the pictures are fuzzy. I'll cull them out.
Thanks!