[Milsurplus] GO RAX more...

[Bruce MacMillan]

You make a very valid point Mike about the time line. Until 1944 no one 
had wheels on the continent to monitor anything. Even with the European 
coast only a short distance from England the monitoring of tactical 
comms was most likely in the low HF range. After D-Day the 2nd Canadian 
Special Wireless group (amongst others I presume) had intercept lorries 
equipped with HRO and S27 receivers.

Knowing the German timeline of equipment development would help. It was 
in 1941 that the German paratroops captured Crete. What sort of comms 
did they have then?

Ahh, to have a wayback machine Mr. Peabody.

Bruce   ve7mt

On 6/11/2011 5:28 PM, Mike Hanz wrote:
> This whole speculation thread is beginning to disturb me.  Time lines of
> available equipment (and by inference, equipment platforms, be they
> fixed ground or aircraft) are bandied about as if they were all infinite
> assets available at the very *beginning* of the war to be drawn upon
> whenever needed!  The British contribution to the discovery and
> classification of German threats seems to be conveniently ignored.  The
> Brits had both ground based *and* airborne Hallicrafters S-27s by the
> hundreds
>
> No flames meant - it just seemed like something that needed saying...
>
>    - Mike
>