Thanks, Jim, that makes sense.
Chris
> On 8 Sep 15, at 21:16, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think it is a holdover from the original A/N range, where one flew a fixed
> beam, with a Morse A on one side and an N on the other. They blended into a
> continuous tone when one was "on the beam". That was just disappearing, and
> VOR was all the rage, when I started flying in 1957. "Range" was a part of
> the culture, and VOR gave one omni-ranges instead of the single beam.
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