[Milsurplus] "Receiver Radiation, Oh No! "

[jmfranke]

There was a VHF radio direction finder used in SEA to locate trucks by 
homing in on the ignition noise.

John  WA4WDL

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From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:50 AM
To: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "Receiver Radiation, Oh No! "

> Small universal electric motors make a LOT of broadband noise. Couple that
> with hundreds of shavers....
>
> Not that idiotic,
>
> -John
>
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>
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>>
>>
>>
>> If you look in National Geographics from 1942, you will E H Scott ads
>> touting
>>
>> their new "Low Radiation Receivers". Keep in mind their was a lot of 
>> fear,
>> almost
>>
>> paranoia, about so called saboteurs, spies, and electronic radiation.
>> Technical
>>
>> Radio Company of SF-CA also built an overbuilt, overpriced morale type
>> reciever
>>
>> for the military. This was at a time when electric razors were banned on
>> ships lest
>>
>> submarines somehow track the ships by hearing them. At the same time US
>>
>> manufacturers' radios were being carefully vetted according to FCC
>> specifications,
>>
>> the German U-boats happily sailed with a standard 6-tube entertainment
>> morale
>>
>> radio which was a rebadged commercial portable and car radio, and English
>>
>> freighters sailded with newly manufactured 1-V-2 regen receivers ( RF,
>> det,
>>
>> 2 audio ). I have such an example, built by International Radio Company.
>> Apparently,
>>
>> the UK authorities weren't too much bothered by the concept of "receiver
>>
>> radiation."  -Hue Miller
>>
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