[ARC5] Rebroadcasts.. was What did they talk to?

[J. Forster]

That's a bit pessimistic, IMO. A few hundred yards is more like it. I suspect the
poor performance was based, in some part, on the trickiness of tuning the B sets
properly.

Actually, I have several 19 sets and would love to do a test some time out in the
boonies somewhere.

-John



Brian Carling wrote:

> Yeah but that VHF set only has a range of up to about 20-30 yards.
>
> J. Forster wrote:
>
> >There were certainly repeaters, or more properly 'rebroadcasters' in use in WW
> >II. The WS 19s have the capability of receiving on the A set and transmitting on
> >the B set (and conversely). They were not repeaters, IMO, because the T/R
> >switching required operator intervention.
> >
> >-John