[Milsurplus] tank radio skip?

[Joe Foley]

--- Bob Camp <ham at cq.nu> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I won't argue the point that they may have tried.
> The story - at least 
> in the version I heard claimed that they were
> successful in their 
> efforts. It also claimed that they fed highly useful
> intelligence back 
> to North Africa for an entire summer.
> 
> To me at least the story still sounds like wartime
> disinformation. We 
> obviously had a number of intelligence resources we
> wanted to hide.
> 
> To your point the story probably was a lot more
> credible in 1943 than 
> today. There simply was not enough long term data on
> this stuff at that 
> point. The original VHF work on tropo layers was
> only done in the late 
> 1930's  (by the Germans, which since they used the
> same frequency band 
> kept them a bit in the dark about some of the
> earliest British radar 
> experiments) .....
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Exactly!!

As far as practical field applications I think they
were writing the textbooks in the dust on the hood of
the truck!

Don't get me wrong here, they had their theory down
well enough.  What they needed was more work on
format, voice, CW, data, and to develop some
manufacturing expertise.  And that all happened in the
space of about three years.

Then they had to find enough people to operate and fix
all that stuff in the field!

Then they had to get it to work in tanks, airplanes,
ships, etc.

The amazing thing is that they got all of it it to
work as well as they did.




		
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