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vor head needed
Well, the old (very old!) Narco VOR head died. Actually, I noticed it
was dead over a year ago, but it was on the 2nd nav/com so I really didn't care. But I'm thinking of starting IFR training (again, for the 3rd time) and the 2nd VOR would be nice. Don't need the ILS portion, I have a perfectly good one on the 1st nav/com. Any suggestions? Please do NOT suggest any panel-mount GPS units, don't have the money right now (altho there's this perfectly good hole in the panel just the right size for a 4xx....) |
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Ebay
Wentworth Eastern Gulf Coast American Jim "blanche cohen" wrote in message ... Well, the old (very old!) Narco VOR head died. Actually, I noticed it was dead over a year ago, but it was on the 2nd nav/com so I really didn't care. But I'm thinking of starting IFR training (again, for the 3rd time) and the 2nd VOR would be nice. Don't need the ILS portion, I have a perfectly good one on the 1st nav/com. Any suggestions? Please do NOT suggest any panel-mount GPS units, don't have the money right now (altho there's this perfectly good hole in the panel just the right size for a 4xx....) |
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Jim Burns wrote:
Ebay Wentworth Eastern Gulf Coast American "blanche cohen" wrote in message Well, the old (very old!) Narco VOR head died. Actually, I noticed it was dead over a year ago, but it was on the 2nd nav/com so I really didn't care. But I'm thinking of starting IFR training (again, for the 3rd time) and the 2nd VOR would be nice. Don't need the ILS portion, I have a perfectly good one on the 1st nav/com. Any suggestions? Please do NOT suggest any panel-mount GPS units, don't have the money right now (altho there's this perfectly good hole in the panel just the right size for a 4xx....) I was hoping for manufacturer/model suggestions. I'm trying to get away from the Narco stuff. The 2nd nav/com is a TKM slide-in replacement for the Narco 12D |
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It would help if we knew the model number for the head. I've got a couple
of old ones from the original MK-12 you could have if that is what is dead. Trying to connect apples to oranges is generally a fruit salad problem. Jim "blanche cohen" wrote in message ... Well, the old (very old!) Narco VOR head died. Actually, I noticed it was dead over a year ago, but it was on the 2nd nav/com so I really didn't care. But I'm thinking of starting IFR training (again, for the 3rd time) and the 2nd VOR would be nice. Don't need the ILS portion, I have a perfectly good one on the 1st nav/com. Any suggestions? Please do NOT suggest any panel-mount GPS units, don't have the money right now (altho there's this perfectly good hole in the panel just the right size for a 4xx....) |
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Blanche, let me suggest that if you replace the VOR head that you examine the cost of making it a VOR/ILS head... I have over the years twice had a glide slope go bad while in IMC... Both times I finessed my way out of it without any major sweat but it is nice when in actual IMC to have a back up... denny |
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Jim, et al:
I've got a dead Narco VOA4 sitting on the seat in the car. I don't think it's even worth taking down to the instrument shop (at KAPA) to see about repairing it, it's so old. I'll probably donate it to the local aviation school's "museum". And doing my homework (and I still don't know what I'm doing -- remember, I do software, not hardware) I know that the TKM nav/com connects nicely to Narco equipment (e.g. ID 824) but what about to a King? (e.g. KI201) I'm still seriously considering the RST marker beacon unit, but you need to understand that I barely know which end of the soldering iron to hold (and I have the scars to prove it!) It's why I do software.... In Arizona summers, being in air conditioned offices was much nicer than being in the shop. |
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Denny wrote:
Blanche, let me suggest that if you replace the VOR head that you examine the cost of making it a VOR/ILS head... I have over the years twice had a glide slope go bad while in IMC... Both times I finessed my way out of it without any major sweat but it is nice when in actual IMC to have a back up... Not a bad idea, but out here in the Rockies, if the weather is serious IMC, then I'm not flying. Mostly this is for getting out of the airport when the summer fog rolls in. There's not much difference in the VOR v. VOR/ILS pricing. I need to see if the TKM unit contains the stuff to talk to a glideslope. Gadzooks -- you're making me go read the docs again. |
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Ahh yes, but you are a software geek and manuals are soft - right?
The Narco/TKM will not drive King/Garmin/Collins indicator heads, but a call to TKM could clarify that - or any avionics shop... denny Blanche wrote: Gadzooks -- you're making me go read the docs again. |
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I've got two old VOA-4 heads sitting SOMEWHERE in boxes of old instruments.
They were working when I took them out of the airplane twenty years or so ago, and either one of them is yours if you want it. I'm going to go look and see if I can find them, and I'd like to describe the connector on the rear to you to see if it is the same one. As I vaguely recall, sometime in the VOA-4's lifetime they switched connectors, and if this is the wrong one, all you will get is grief trying to convert one to the other. Jim "Blanche" wrote in message ... Jim, et al: I've got a dead Narco VOA4 |
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I found one of them. Let me describe the rear of the instrument to you and
see if it matches what you took out of your aircraft. There are two adjustment controls on the rear. The top center one is labeled LOC and the bottom right one is labeled VOR. In the lower left corner there is what we call a "cannon" plug, about 1.25" diameter and with 14 male pins inside the plug housing. That what you've got? Now, as I said, this one was working 20 years ago when I took it out to replace it with the RST navcom(s). If it is DOA when you get it, start thinking that perhaps it is the radio that drives the heads rather than the heads themselves. What radio is driving the head? If the radio is good, and this one doesn't work, I'll look around for the other head. Jim "RST Engineering" wrote in message ... I've got two old VOA-4 heads sitting SOMEWHERE |
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