[Milsurplus] YE - YG considerations

[Al Klase]

Folks,

I did a presentation on this at the Radio Technology Museum in 2013.  I 
think the PowerPoint is pretty readable, so
I'm sharing it here: 
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/Docs/YE-ZB%20Presentation.pdf

Al

Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

On 11/12/2015 7:08 PM, Al Klase wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 6:28 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
>>
>> .....What does it mean when this says the YE "is synchronized with a 
>> gyro compass so that each letter is beamed from the ship on a true 
>> bearing" ?
>> I am missing what is "true bearing" ? The ship's not travelling that 
>> fast that the plane can't follow the beam.
>>
>>
> Hue,
>
> The aircraft does not DF the beam. Rather, the Morse letters indicate 
> which sector the aircraft is in relative to the ship, and the pilot 
> flies the appropriate reverse heading to the carrier. Hence the 
> transmitter and it's rotating beam antenna must be synchronized to the 
> compass in order to be sending out the right information.
>
> The beauty of the system is that a pilot in a single seat aircraft 
> needs only to receive the Morse letters, consult his crib 
> sheet-of-the-day, and fly the heading back to the ship.
>
> Al
>
> Al Klase – N3FRQ
> Jersey City, NJ
> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>
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