[Milsurplus] Re: DF-ing & Earhardt/Noonan

[Joe Foley]

> Maybe they just didn't have enuff experience with
> this.
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This has always been my biggest concern with radio
equipment at that period, they would have HAD to have
faith, not only in the equipment but also in the
technique.  At that time it was all new to most
people, and NOT fully understood by many.

Geez, even air travel wasn't all that common then.

Under those conditions it would have been all to easy
to blow off the equipment as not working right,
instead of trying to understand its quirks.

Joe


> I found it could be very frustrating to try to get a
> null
> sometimes, as the null depth might constantly
> change,
> but if you were persistent, didn't give up, you
> could
> often tell the general direction of the null within
> say,
> just guessing here, 15 degrees. IF they had gotten
> this, then switched to "DIRECTION" on the DU,
> to engage the sense circuit, they could have gotten
> the right direction too, which would have helped
> them
> at least fly in the right direction and general
> bearing,
> instead of wondering if they were going / coming.
> Hue


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