[Milsurplus] Command Set Receiver/Transmitter Frequency Spotting
Neil Barnett
neilba at clear.net.nz
Tue Nov 7 01:47:44 EST 2006
>> Was the pre-flight check the entire justification for the receivers'
>> coffee-grinder tuning, or was it necessary that the pilots make
>> large changes in receiver tuning during missions when they would
>> receive orders to do so for tactical reasons?
>
> I might think they would be given the ability to retune in case of
> jamming. There was not a whole lot of HF jamming in World War 2, but
> the threat certainly existed.
Yes, I realised jamming or the threat of it might justify a receiver tuning
control in the cockpit, but I lumped jamming under "tactical reasons".
73 de Neil
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