[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

Hubert Miller kargo_cult at msn.com
Thu Aug 25 23:32:51 EDT 2016


Predictably so, but i suppose they had to try. German ship HF receivers
could be expected to have been designed to the same standards as ours.

However, i can think of one German VHF search receiver, something like
100-200 MHz, "Samos", that went from the antenna right into a diode mixer.

-H 

 

>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




 

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