[Milsurplus] Re: ASB gear

[Hue Miller]

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From: "Unserviceable but Repairable" <cosmoline at ba-watch.org>

> ASB may have helped PBYs find Midway support (not battle) convoy but 
> probably little else.  It could only "just see" a freighter @ 2 miles.  
> This from oral tradition

Marty, we might want to check this against other action reports. The range
that seems to come to mind for me, is 12 or 20 miles or something like that.
2 miles, would be no use. There wouldn't be a U-boat ever that wouldn't 
detect a plane well before 2 miles. 2 miles range, why carry radar?
-Hue