[Milsurplus] Earhart flight tracked by U-boats?

[Eric Jones]

de N4TGC Eric

just kidding ... the mention of "Huff-Duff" reminded me of the chapter "The 
Yellow-Green Eye" in the book "Defeat at Sea" written by Kreigsmariner C.D. 
Bekker and pub'l in the 50's in England and USA, regarding the radar 
achievments by both sides.  He relates the early short-wave experiments in 
the 30's, and the use of 9-centimeter radar in Allied aircraft in Jan- May 
'43.  Previously, they'd used 1.2 and 0.9 meter radar, and when the U-boots 
installed the "Metox" rcvr, they discovered the detector itself radiated, 
and initially, mistakenly thought the Allies were using it for DF.

It appears from all info that HF-DF was never effective, reliable, or 
consistant.  I suspect it took too much training and interpretation on the 
part of the operator - beyond what was available at the time.

But maybe Earhart *was* tracked by I-boats (i.e., the Japanese) or some such 
clandestiny. ha
    e