[Milsurplus] Naval Aviation Navigation

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Werstiuk" <greg_werstiuk at msn.com>

> To eliminate the need for the long transmission periods required for
> traditional direction finding, for brief periods, a carrier transmitted a
> directionally split beacon at a single frequency between 241-251MHz.  

I didn't know about the brief transmissions from the YG. I suppose i 
thought it was always on when strike flights were out.
Probably USN planners did actually worry about Japanese interception.
But from what i've seen of Japanese avionics from the era, there was no
danger whatsoever of this.
-Hue Miller