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

[J. Forster]

> Could the issue of DFing on LOs in WW II be part of a 'cover story' to hide microwave
> radar?. Certainly stories about IR detection methods were leaked and caused the Germans
> to miss-direct considerable effort. This is in 'The Wizzard War' by R.V. Jones, if I
> remember correctly. As a result they developed "Christiansen'  (?) Paint with special
> IR properties, to no avail.

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> European countries did indeed have radio vans to detect unlicensed receivers, and would
> cruise up and down streets looking for it.  This implies very close range detection,
> because they would have to match taxed addresses with receiver radiation.
>

Certainly true, but here the signal strength would have been much higher.

-John