[ARC5] Airplane radios in tanks

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 21 Feb 2010 at 18:17, Lenox Carruth wrote:

> I have read that, in some tank battles, the Germans were using AM in
> the same band as the American FM radios and the AM was ineffective
> under the FM chatter.  The AM didn't bother the Americans.

I have also read that the Germans in Africa with Rommel 
used frequencies within or very close to the 10 and 11 
meter ham bands.

Supposedly, some ham in one of the Eastern seaboard 
states regularly heard the Germans' communications, and 
called the FBI, thinking it might be here in the states.

The FBI, after listening for a very short time, practically 
commandeered his home and station and set up a major 
listening post there. 

They had translators, etc. and passed immediately on to 
our forces in Africa what they heard.

I read this many years ago, and no longer know the source, 
but the story was quite detailed.

Ken Gordon W7EKB