[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Camp" <ham at cq.nu>

> Since these guys in North Africa were using signals in the 2 to 10 MHz 
> range that puts a different spin on the whole radio intercept thing. 
> Getting HF in that range to bounce the Atlantic is pretty easy. The FCC 
> certainly had sites set up for HF monitoring. The Rhode Island site was 
> used for monitoring "in theater command links" in North Africa. Of 
> course with NVIS the guys on the British side should have been able to 
> pick up all the traffic them selves .....
> 
> Lots of questions with every answer.

Maybe  the continental USA might not be the best monitoring site for listening
to 10 to 100 watt transmitters from Europe and North Africa. Might be an extra
challenge if the transmitted frequencies were in the 1 - 3 MHz range. Clearly the
USA did monitor some Axis traffic from the USA: i am thinking of Bainbridge
Island, just a ferry ride from Seattle, which i read once ( WW2 ) had the tallest
antenna in the USA.  ( Altho typing this, i have to wonder if that claim was true.)
For the Navy's radio monitoring station there.   ( All the Japanese-ancestry island
folk had already been safely removed to camps. )  Also James Barrows who worked
for FBIS and FCC told me about mobile - df from a car on the beaches of Oregon,
trying to pick up Japanese submarine radios. ( Never did, so that program was
canned. )

Bob, i think it was you who provided a list of books that might prove interesting. 
For which i am highly grateful to you; i bought the bunch shortly afterward. I 
was just looking at one this PM, "Allied and Axis Signals Intelligence in World
War II". Not a comprehensive history but a collection of articles. One thing i 
saw in a brief look was about a particular listening station setup in a remote
part of Australia which was able to pick up lower-powered traffic not audible
from other locations farther away.  

Now, in your note, which "NVIS guys" were those?

-Hue Miller