[Milsurplus] Radiation from a regenerative detector.

[J. Forster]

Maybe the U-boats heard nothing at 2.5 MHz because the ships were using
the TBS?

-John

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> Here's another fact I forgot to mention:
> Regarding U-boats listening for convoy communications:
> No one has reported any documentation on EXACTLY what
> HFDF equipment U-boats might have carried, as for the
> antenna and some kind of DF adapter for the receiver.
> There MAY have been a single experimental setup, but
> from the available docs, HFDF was NOT possible for
> U-boats.
> One of the referenced links had an account talking about
> convoy HF communications. That I would guess means
> 2.5 Mc/s band voice communications, because CW
> via the usual LF or even on HF would be, first, too
> powerful for just short range use, and second, likely
> too slow for close-in convoy maneuvering.
> In the account I read, by a U-boat captain, published
> in Sea Classics magazine, the U-boat listened on the
> 2 Mc/s band. To no success.
> -Hue Miller
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