Control Unit, C-149/ARN-6 Radio Compass System B-36 It has a serial #

It has a serial # prefix of AF49

Measures approximately 3

The instrument is in exceptional but experienced condition given its age

likely indicating a manufacturing year of 1950

in an audio frequency signal the average frequency of which is proportional to the altitude of the aircraft above the ground

Control Unit, C-149/ARN-6 Radio Compass System B-36 It has a serial #This is a terrific example of a C 149 Control unit for the aircraft receiver R 101 of the Radio Compass AN ARN 6 system for direction finding and homing. The receiver function tunes from 100 1750 kHz across 4 bands, which were selected by rotating the center knob below the frequency band window. The center knob rotates a flexible shaft connected to a rotatable loop antenna. The AN ARN 6 system evolved over time, originally using a control box similar