[Milsurplus] Hight Freq. Rept. - book report

[Hue Miller]

> Did find Germans had maggies & klystrons by '45 - we don't advertise it.
> Got their cobalt for alnico magnets fm Japan.  Also VFH & UHF 2-ways
> in acft by '44.  Again, buried in 'noise' here.

I wonder about the "VHF and UHF" radios. Certainly, Luftwaffe
had the FuG16 radio operating in the 40 MHz region, but that
wasn't any new technology i can see. It was also VFO with 
mechanical presets, due to German quartz shortage. I wonder 
how a German UHF radio would have operated without a source
of quartz. I have seen one German UHF radio, a portable, and it
used a tuned line in a superregenerative circuit. Nothing much
radical in that, and not as advanced as some of our IFF units.
> 
> Air-2-air A10 rocket took out 72 of our bummers in last few days of
> 'engagement.'  Sheet iron wonder

That number doesn't mean anything unless we can relate it to the 
going loss rate per mission.
I think Allied aircraft also had rockets in their armory but ours i 
believe, were used for ground attack. I don't know why not 
against aircraft, maybe just because the Axis didn't have large 
bombers.
Clearly  the writing was on the wall for human-pointed bullet-
shooting irons. If this had gone on longer maybe the Allies
would have been forced to go to airborne AA rockets also.
I think the proximity fuse delivered from an aircraft mounted
rocket would have been a super weapon, alto only strong 
aircraft could carry that size gun and would have to be 
reinforced also. 
> 
> It seems Germans invented VOR.
> 
> Summary sez we shore topped 'em in the military conflict but victory in
> technology shows no clear winner.
>    signed
> 
>      obselete manual reader

Mary, i dunno about that. I'm taking it with a dose of sea salt.
( Less sodium than  ordinary salt. )
How about: microwave radar and navigation and radar bombing
sytems? Submini tubes? Miniaturized construction? Loran? 
Mine detectors for nonferrous mines? Autotune? Sonar? Etc...

I don't remember that Robert Downs was reprinting this. Wasn't this
offered by some commercial publisher? -Hue Miller