[Milsurplus] German Subs

[J. Forster]

"salt-encrusted antenna insulators" ???

Would not any salt on the insultors be washed off when the sub submerged?
The sea is far from a saturated solution.

-John

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> Re:
>> > Presumably communication was mostly HF and wonder how reliable it was?
>
> The only reliability problem I've read of was salt-encrusted antenna
> insulators intermittently breaking down late in a voyage.  One could
> estimate time at sea by the quality of the note.
>
> Yes indeed communication was almost exclusively HF, but note that
> everyone had MF capability.  Antennas were typically three wires fore
> and aft from the conning tower, and presumably tied together and worked
> against sea water ground for MF.  This is not really efficient at MF,
> but will work well enough for communication.
>
> Richard, AA1P
>
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