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Aviation => Pilot/Controller Forum => Topic started by: masterkeymaster on December 31, 2011, 03:04:05 PM

Title: Tuning nav’s to VOR’s localizers stations ect.
Post by: masterkeymaster on December 31, 2011, 03:04:05 PM
When we tune our radios in the nav part of the radio what mode is the transmitting station? I know that the com part is AM mode...
Title: Re: Tuning nav’s to VOR’s localizers stations ect.
Post by: K5PAT on December 31, 2011, 09:56:06 PM
A VOR station puts out several types of modulated signals.

A quick look at Wickipedia can give you a good overall explanation of the VOR signal. See here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range)