[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

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I'm quite inclined to agree with Ray.

In a message dated 08/25/2016 16:21:29 PM Central Daylight Time, 
RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu writes: 
> I am still not buying it, the Afghanis in there mud huts believe that the 
> Americans can hear their conversations with drones five miles above them. 
> QRP operations in the Ham bands are a wonderful thing but my experience of 
> running low power CW and AM left me with the idea that life is too short 
> for QRP, lots of time spent calling other stations or CQ with little 
> response. If all the stars and planets are in perfect alignment sometimes they get 
> lucky and have a short exchange and call that a QSO, but that’s just me.
> 
>  I would have thought German surface raiders in there short period of time 
> in operation relied on things like patrolling know shipping lanes and 
> approaches and visual sighting of smoke way before they would use something as 
> sketchy as receiver LO detection. And as to the noise floor remember that 
> we are talking about a ship that also had many electrically powered motors 
> and other potential noise sources. 
> 
> No, if no one here can’t sight a document I am sticking with LO radiation 
> being an issue in using multipole receivers in the same location and the 
> idea of long range LO direction finding a myth.
> 
>   
> 
>  Ray F/KA3EKH
> 
> 
> 

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