[Milsurplus] Re: tank radio skip?

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message -----
Subject: [Milsurplus] tank radio skip?


Sometime during the last 10 or so years I read something about Afrika Korps radios being heard from
the desert in the US due to skip.  Can't remember where.  Does anyone remember the cite?  Was it in
QST?
Thanks,
Bill Strangfeld

I think the date was closer toward the 10 years ago timeframe. It appeared in Popular
Communications, written by Tom Kneitel.  I still have the article somewhere. I wish
i had kept the letter from Tom, refuting my criticism about some of his graphics and
articles. For example,  i had pointed out that the panzers photo in the A.K. article
actually showed  Bundeswehr ( West German army ) , American-built tanks from the Cold
War period, and that an article about Communist Chinese military electronics was
illustrated by a photo of a high school basic electronics class.  But as he pointed out,
he had a TransAm and a boat, so he knew photo editting better than me.  The article
was 2-3 pages and not a whole lot of hard fact, beyond the basics how it actually
happened and where. Supposedly it was only one location in New England, USA.
I would think also the lack of more written about this incident was due to lack of any
great benefit to US military by listening to the Panzer traffic over here.  After all,
the German operators were taugtht to assume that they would be listened to. And
how much use would some traffic like this be: "23, the fuel truck  is now coming up".
The German traffic was in the 27 - 33 MHz range, mostly. -Hue Miller