[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

[John Vendely]

Back in the early 1980s, when I was working in an R&D group at RCA, I 
had the pleasure of working with a very accomplished British engineer, 
Sir J. Hugh Wharton, who had a distinguished career at the BBC and 
elsewhere before emigrating to the U.S. in the '60s.  Hugh told me that, 
among a number of special projects he worked on during the war, was one 
for DF'ing L.O. radiation from German shipboard receivers.  It was a 
serious development program aimed at both surface ships and submarines.  
I recall him saying it was not particularly successful, and I had the 
impression the system never went much beyond the research phase.

73,

John K9WT

On 8/25/2016 6:20 PM, Nick England wrote:
> The evidence in contemporary reports, equipment mods, etc. shows that 
> either:
> 1) NRL, the US Navy, the Royal Navy, and the Kriegsmarine all believed 
> it was a real possibility.
> or 2) those same people were consciously running a con game.
>
> I like #1 and you like #2. We'd all love to see some evidence that LO 
> DFing actually happened or that it was just a Vast Right-wing Conspiracy.
>  I suspect a very real worry that it could happen led to the "myth" 
> that it actually did happen.
>
> For full details, see drawer 3, filing cabinet 432, location FD-34 in 
> the Indiana Jones Memorial Warehouse.
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu 
> <mailto:RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I am still not buying it,
>
>
>
> -- 
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>
>
>
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