[Milsurplus] is that an oscillator I hear whining?!

Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:08:27 -0600

Here's a current day application of the same principle:

http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/5349258p-6338265c.html

> I can't remember if this subject was hashed (pun intended) out on this list
> or on "theporch", but on reading the paperback version of "German Raider
> Atlantis" (titled "Under Ten Flags", after the movie starring van Heflin
> and Charles Laughton), I found, on page 110, a reference to DF'ing by using
> receiver oscillators.  I quote the author, Captain Bernhard Rogge: "I used
> the Speybank [a ship] to enlarge my patrol area, sending her out as a scout
> thirty miles on my flank, whence she could report by a specially arranged
> signal.  Breuers, her captain, was able to maintain contact with us in a
> new and very remarkable way, by taking bearings on the radiations of our
> radio receiver.  Although the experts said this was impossible, supsequent
> [typo in the original] developments proved that Breuers was only too right.
> [unfortunately, I could not find where Rogge continued this - it may have
> been left out of the paperback version.]
> 
> Does anyone have the original version, "German Raider Atlantis"?  Hopefully
> in German?  	e
> 
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