[450] $5 dollars to anyone who can figure out what this is...

[John Foege]

Yep. That one was called TBY ... It's on the old sectional nav charts from
1998, etc. It was 3 miles north of OXC field.


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Michael Aurio <oneluckystiff at hotmail.com>wrote:

> there use to be one at the farm before quassy amusement.the capacity hat
> gave it AWAY...it use to come over my trucks am radio.....can we go to
> Mindy's for lunch..............
>
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> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 22:29:54 -0500
> From: john.foege at gmail.com
> To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
> Subject: Re: [450] $5 dollars to anyone who can figure out what this is...
>
>
> It's a NBD (non-directional beacon) that operates on 362 kHz and is called
> CLERA. It serves as the OM (outer marker) for pilot's flying instrument
> approaches to runway 36 at Waterbury-Oxford airport.
> You fly over CLERA at 2500 ft. above sea level and turn to a heading of
> 005 degrees. From the NDB it's a 6 nautical mile approach to the runway at
> a 3 degree glideslope.
> Generally pilots intercept the instrument landing system at that fix over
> CLERA on 109.55 MHz, which gives them precise left/right and glideslope
> info and they just keep the cross needles centered as they fly the approach
> all the way in.
> A little flying/radio trivia for everyone!
> I thought you all might be interested in a large swath of fenced off grass
> in the middle of nowhere with a turnstile antenna and a shack....
> Cheers!
> 73s
> John
> W1QEX
> On Nov 5, 2013 7:34 PM, "Michael Aurio" <oneluckystiff at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> it looks like a loacator tower for oxford airport..........................
>
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> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 19:09:07 -0500
> From: john.foege at gmail.com
> To: 450 at lists.vhfwiki.com
> Subject: [450] $5 dollars to anyone who can figure out what this is...
>
> 41.382404, -73.112524
>
> Google maps it and zoom in....if you can figure it out, I'll buy you
> lunch/beer/etc.
>
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