[ARC5] Pipsqueack info

David Stinson arc5 at ix.netcom.com
Thu Nov 9 23:17:26 EST 2006


>From Mike's link to Wikipedia:

Battle of Britain
In the Battle of Britain, "Huff-Duff" was the mechanism used by the RAF to
track the location of their fighter squadrons in the air. RAF fighters had a
HF channel of their radios set to broadcast a signal for fourteen seconds of
every minute. A clockwork mechanism regulated this broadcast, which was
codenamed "Pipsqueak".

Each Fighter Command sector had HF/DF receiving stations that would monitor
the Pipsqueak broadcasts and telephone the bearings back to the sector
control rooms where they could be triangulated and the squadron's location
plotted.




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