[Milsurplus] BC-455-B UK Standard Beam Approach

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I thought that the high HF receivers the Brits used were for tracking 
Knickebein.  If they used the Lorenz system, they wouldn't have needed any 
auxiliary receivers for tracking the German version.

In a message dated 6/11/2011 12:22:16 AM Central Daylight Time, 
wh7hg.hi at gmail.com writes: 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Morrow
> >List member Gordon White wrote the most informative article on those
> modified
> >BC-455-B sets that I've ever seen (CQ Magazine, June 1968).
> 
> I have that article as I do all of his articles on the command equipment
> plus notes from various sources.  In those notes is a comment that it was
> the Admiralty that did the conversions.  I need to find it and see if I 
> can
> back trace it to the source.
> 
> Here's where I have a small niggling problem.  The Lorenz system was a
> German development and was used not only in Germany but in other countries
> like England.  Since both sides in the war used it, it would seem 
> reasonable
> to use alternate means since the other side could use the system to home 
> in
> on each other's airfields even at night or in a solid overcast.  So was 
> the
> Lorenz system still active through the war or did the British adapt the 
> AAF
> SCS-51 system or ???
> 
> Best regards,
> 

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