[Milsurplus] Earhart flight, again.

[Marty Reynolds]

> There are two photos of the XAB/HRO on my page about my "namesake
> station",
> NYW - Navy HFDF "Station T"
> http://www.virhistory.com/navy/nyw.htm
> It was evidently a "portable" Adcock-Gordon setup designed at NRL - at
> Station Tare it was on skids so that if the Lighthouse Service people
> complained, the Navy could drag it back onto their own territory.
> cheers,
> Nick K4NYW
>

'way to go!

That indoor tunable adcock is a sight to behold

The fact that pt. Tare HFDF was decommissioned in '44 supports a
private theory.  That is, HFDF was a flop because of ionospheric
reflections - you just couldn't be sure the null direction was
the vector to the transmitter

British claim HFDF helped locate U boats in ww2.  But I think
they used a lot of signal averaging to better pinpoint tx source.
IE they had HFDF in Bermuda, Newfoundland, Scotland,

Chime in y'all

   Marty