[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Signal Corps Info Golden Nuggets.

[Richard H. Brown Jr.]

> Subject: [ARC5] Signal Corps Info Golden Nuggets.
> > ...Reports recently received by the War Department clearly indicate
> > that the enemy is quite likely to disrupt our radio communication
> > by jamming.  Jamming signals may be keyed continuous wave (CW),
> > modulated continuous wave (MCW), voice, music, imitation static,
> > phony broadcasts or other types of noise.
> > The jamming equipment may be located on the ground
> > or installed in aircraft...
> > ...the main purposes of the enemy in jamming (are) to cause panic
> > and disorganization in our forces through impairment or disruption
> > of radio communication and by spreading propaganda and rumors....
> >
> > (end of excerpt)
> > ------------------------
>

Guys, you're missing the point, Braodcast doens't necessarily mean
broadcast's like today with mega watts, the power of *commercial* stations
were a lot less in those days and military *broadcasts" doesn't mean the same
thing as a commercial broadcast.

Mil speak broadcast sorta means like daily transmissions of scheduled message
traffic from 1 or 2 sites to a whole bunch of receive sites. Like, the Navy
Fleet broadcasts of Ship movements, promotion lists, transfers,
*housekeeping* stuff like that.,  mostly in cw cause rtty (radio teletype)
was reserved for higher hq stuff.

Look at the U-Boat Enigma transmissions from European sites. Transmitters in
France and Germany and Norway? broadcast daily schedules of info to all
U-boats in cw. *besides* the operational back and forth chat of U-Boat's in
the field to Doernitz back in U-Boat HQ.

Except for *flagship* transmitter sites of mil stations like WAR (Army, in
USA) and Navy HQ, and British sta's. Empire chain? only other high power
sta's were taken over for operational needs or in the case of propaganda like
BBC or Deutches Welle, were gov't owned/operated high  power sites.

RHB