[ARC5] German Tank Radios (was Re: Off topic)

[John Hutchins]

All -
Germans used ~20-30 Mhz AM and I thought later FM  I recall reading in a 
few books on the war in Africa.
I also remember reading on the Eastern Front the Germans had FM sets - 
No? while the soviets had only AM sets?
Hutch



On 1/6/2012 11:55 AM, Todd, KA1KAQ wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Jim Haynes<jhhaynes at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>
>> One book I read on radio intercept work in North Africa said something
>> to the effect that the German forces were using frequencies in the
>> vicinity of 2 MHz.
> I wonder if that was a typo or a wholesale change took place at some
> point? There are several well-documented instances of Rommel's Afrika
> Corps being received here in the US on 28MHz or somewhere in that
> vicinity. One took place at a location in Massachusetts Telegraph Hill
> or Signal Hill. One of the magazines that Tom Kneitel wrote for
> featured an article about it many years ago, seems there was also one
> in QST or CQ.
>
> The Soviets of course took the 'overwhelming numbers of lesser
> systems' approach during the Cold War. Seems like the Germans went to
> the other extreme with their weaponry, preferring massive, impressive
> systems that were either too unwieldy, too costly, or too
> maintenance-intensive for reliable battlefield use. Some of those
> siege guns were amazing, but it took dozens of people to set up and
> operate the big railway guns, and they were limited as to where they
> could be used.  They even had a design called the Maus that was a
> house-sized tank sporting a 2 gun naval turret. Incredible power, but
> how do you move it on the standard road system?
>
> And of course, when they did come up with something they could use
> well to their advantage like the ME-262, old bubblehead overruled the
> generals and pushed its role as a bomber over its fighter
> capabilities. I wonder what Normandy would've looked like had he
> directed the V-1s at the beaches and temporary ports instead of London
> a week after the landings.
>
> Vanity and insanity even rhyme.
>
> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
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