[Milsurplus] WW2 "Plane recon on 800 band" ?????

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

One possibility for using VLF is that it will penetrate water. WE still use 
VLF and ELF to communicate with submarines today.

73
Glenn
WB4UIV
ETCS(SS) Retired
22 years US Navy submarine service

  At 05:51 AM 06/18/05, Hue Miller wrote:
>WW2 aviation radio afficionados, here's an interesting puzzle to chew
>on:
>
>"Mile's [ US Navy in China ] communications center assisted many
>submarines in locating and destroying Japanese shipping. A case
>in point is the USS Boarfish. That vessel's first patrol report, which
>covers the period December 1944 to Feb. 15, 194 5, states ' On
>January 13 at 10:00 PM, Boarfish guarding Radio Chungking
>[ capital of the non-communist anti-Japanese resistance ] at set
>hours, wolfpack fequency and China plane reconnaissance on 800
>band, when possible....
>"......The Japanese attempted to jam NKN ( Radio Chungking ), but
>with the exeption of one or two skeds, attempts were unsuccessful,
>due to NKN's signal strength which doubled that of the enemy"
>
>( Japanese Navy station presumably Shanghai. )
>
>Now, "China plane recon on 800 band". That cannot be Mcs.
>Sounds like meters  - the old way of describing the marine
>500 kcs. frequency was "the 600 band".  800 meters  works out to
>something like 370 kcs.  Pretty close to the lower limit of such A/C
>rigs as GO, GP, BC-375.  Chungking's freqs had to be HF, as subs at
>ddistance communicated directly with that base, and the sub wolfpack
>freq, i wager also HF, or MF/ low HF.
>Dunno why LF (if i'm right) was desirable. #1, wanted to eliminate
>skywave propagation????  #2 wanted to provide a reference point
>to home on, via DF? But that would allow the Japanese to home in
>also - maybe the Japanese air forces were much reduced as threat
>by then.
>You figure it out. When solved, more to come.
>(from "The Army-Navy Game", Roy Stratton, 1977 )
>-Hue Miller
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