Good Morning, I searched the forums and didn't find any recent radio/ nav upgrade posts. The most recent I found was from 2009 and older. Free Mitchell On Demand 5.8. If I am wrong please point me in the right direction. N4244V has the following installed.

Terra TXN 960 yes it's a loran C Apollo I II morrow yes it's a loran C Narco AT150 Mode C finally a C that is not useless at this point. I have no intention of making it into anything close to IFR. Just a bit more updated.

I have about 6k left in my budget, I know thats not much. Going over that would require congressional approval from my wife, I am sure I could get the spending bill passed, but she would attach a rider to it in the form of a new kitchen. Posts: 17 Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:41 am Location: Thousand Palms CA. At first, the left hand radio was awkward.

Its a Terra TXN 960 nav/com. I have been given reports that my radio is weak and barely readible. Radio weak and barely readible Hi there! Terra TXN 960 NavCom ECDI Install & Operators Manual eBay Motors, Parts & Accessories, Aviation Parts & Accessories eBay!

Changing frequencies while flying felt like rubbing your stomach and patting your head. After a few hours you get used to it tho. I don't even think about it now. What killed me was having the transponder way over on the right side of the plane. I'm in the DC SFRA so, I change frequencies and squawk codes several times a day.

I've heard very good things about the 760 as well. My Dad had one in his Experimental. I think his description was 'Bomb proof'. Posts: 2611 Joined: Thu Sep 30, 2010 11:35 pm. Alwine00775 wrote:Terra TXN 960 yes it's a loran C No the Terra TXN 960 it is not a Loran C.

It is a 200 channel nav receiver, a 760 channel com receiver and an electronic course deviation indicator. It can have a glide slope receiver and or a Loran C drive the left/right indicator. In actuality it can have a GPS drive the left/right indicator as the indicator doesn't know what is driving it. The question is does this work to navigate and communicate? If it does why replace it? Remove the boat anchor loran C. If it doesn't work the next question is what navigation equipment do you want?

If you want a VOR receiver, do you have the panel space for a left/right indicator? My partner and I had a VAL COM 760 com, a Genave 300 Nav and a King transponder. The Genave was only good at sucking lots of amperage and taking the space of the glove compartment but it could not be used to navigate any more.

Coreldraw Graphics Suite X5 Serial Number Crackers. His requirements were to have two coms and a nav radio. It was a forgone conclusion we would use a hand held GPS for situational awareness. The SL30 and 40 are nice units but bring a premium if you can find them.

You won't go wrong with a King KX155 nav/com but those are also pricey and getting older. We considered a new VAl VAL COM 2000 and their INS 422 or INS 429 but we were getting a little pricey with the nav radios.

I then bid on and unexpectedly won a King KX 125 NavCom for $1800 which was a nice price for this unit. It does not require a left/right indicator as it has one built in. I'm pretty happy with it. So we have the KX-125, the Val Com 760 which gets used the most because it's easiest to see and the King transponder. BTW my partner has yet to use the nav part of the nav/com he thought he just had to have. If you're buying a new COM radio, a nice feature that the Garmin units have is a serial interface that can be connected to your handheld GPS, such as a Garmin 496.

This lets you transfer frequencies from the GPS's database to the NAV/COM unit. I think you just have to highlight the frequency you want on the GPS, then hit 'Enter' to transfer it to the standby frequency of the NAV/COM. The Icom IC-A210 has the same feature.

I know lots of people like the VAL 760, but I have one and I'm not fond of it. Mine has some years on it, and it's been back to the factory twice for reconditioning, the last time because the automatic display dimmer failed so as to make it too dim to read in daylight, and the toggle switches were unreliable. The frequency selector switches, even after reconditioning, often fail to make contact -- so I have to toggle them more than should be necessary to select the frequency. I can't just hit a switch the right number of times and expect the right frequency to appear. The switch handles are annoyingly small and uncomfortable to use. Worst of all, although it has two frequency registers, it is not truly a flip-flop radio, because the second frequency is not a standby.

If you're using the 'A' frequency and want to enter the next one you're going to need, you have to leave the 'A' frequency to do it. This comes down to how you fly and what you want. Is the Terra sufficient for your flying mission? Do you need/want two radios and the complexity of an audio panel? I have a handheld icom transceiver and an antenna splitter just in case my radio fails. I figure I can plug my headset into the the icom and get home that way.and I fly in the SFRA.