[Milsurplus] Question ( RBS; submarine )

[Richard]

Yes, I remember that, and may have the book here...somewhere. They 
parked in the street in front of the embassy, tuned in the local 
oscillator, then swept a transmitter until they heard a slight frequency 
shift in the LO due to receiver overload, thus confirming the working 
frequency.

Richard, AA1P


On 08/26/2016 04:05 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> You are right about that. Your note made me remember some book i'd mentioned
> here years back, about some Brit who was involved in
> exactly that kind of secret, MI-5 type project against the Russian embassy -
> and i recall it WAS successful. Oh my, memory.... i don't recall the name of
> the book, but
> someone else will.
> -H
>
>
>> We do that now.  Maybe it only started at the cold war, but it certainly
> wasn't my imagination which came up with the idea.
>
>
> On 8/26/2016 2:21 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> This is imaginative, but i'd say, in the vernacular, "Get real".
>>
>> -H
>>
>> Even if you can't DF the LO might indicate what frequencies you were
> listening
>> to, and maybe your search techniques. It is best to give as little
> information
>> as possible to the enemy.
>>
>> Peter
>