[Milsurplus] LO radiation vs observation

[J. Forster]

William Donzelli wrote:

> > I still think the "radio receiver leakage" issue was grasping at straws to
> > try to explain the grievous losses to US shipping in early 1942.

Or perhaps a cover story or disinformation to disguise the very real foolishness
of the US decision not to use convoys for coastal merchant traffic and prevent
an outcry for a few admiral's or politician's heads on a platter.

> It very well could have been, and Scott certainly was playing along
> (would you want to turn down all that patriotic business?).

Nope. Especially since the fiction was essentially harmless.-John

> I think it was a real concern, perhaps built on some shakey ground,
> maybe a calculated formula with probablilities of intercepts vs. ship
> sinkings, and that Scott did nothing to lessen the concern to boost
> sales..
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288 at osfn.org