[Milsurplus] [spam?] LO DFing, the myth that never dies!

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

I believe the big worry was for enemy's detection
of ships at sea from L.O. radiation, thereby giving
DF for possible attacks, sinking, etc.
 
It apparently was pretty much a useless technique
once modern (even for the time) superhets came
into common or even universal use.
 
Of course we all know that the gummint continues
to use very outmoded equipment way past the time
that the newest and greatest comes on the scene.
It's a financial restraint caused by the magnitude
of the project to change over to the newer gear.

 
73 - Mac, K2GKK/5
(Since 30 Nov 53)
Oklahoma City, OK
 
Still working on the same equipment for the FAA that
I worked on in the Air Force starting back in 1975 !


 
 
> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:08:27 -0800
> From: jfor at quik.com
> To: RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu
> CC: mikea at mikea.ath.cx; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [spam?] LO DFing, the myth that never dies!
> 
> I get the impression the intel community are really a bunch of data
> packrats. If they found out a target liked Persian Cats or bread with
> Sesame seeds on top, they's possibly consider that important intel. It
> might be useful some day, some way.
> 
> The Feds are still doing it, according to the PBS Nova program on data
> mining. Scarf up everything and try and fill in pieces of a puzzle.
> 
> FWIW,
> -John
> 
> =============
> 
>> Not to be demeaning or as a insult but as a question that I would propose.
>> If you receive the LO of another receiver what will that tell you?
> [snip]
> 
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