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

[Nick England]

Zounds! - Regens were used at sea for a lonnng time -

Standard USN shipboard LF receiver during WW2 and through the early
50's was the RBA regen.

For merchant marine use, Mackay regens were commonly used through the 1990's....
See http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/bapix/Mackay.htm

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, D C *Mac* Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>