[Milsurplus] Ardennes Offensive - SIGSEC Master's Thesis

[Hubert Miller]

I have only seen the stateside DX of German VHF comms in the USA recounted as an article in 'Popular Communications' 
magazine. That magazine is history now and Tom Kneitel, the author, also the magazine editor, passed away some years
back. I don't recall the article was referenced, as I think I would have looked up the references. I have the article, the 
magazine copy, somewhere, but I am not going to look for it now. The Panzer communications in the 27 - 33 MHz would
be of local value only and only ephemerally so in the moment, so were actually just a curious phenomenon when heard
in the U.S.  'Command Panzers' had additional radio sets operating 1 - 3 MHz, but with 30 watts carrier power and vehicular
antenna, were impossible to hear in the U.S. 

I recall reading in, I think, the U.K. magazine 'T&R Report', about the war in North Africa before the U.S. entered the war,
Brit army in North Africa complained of some of their HF communications being jammed by 'ham radio' operations in the 
U.S.

Also in some book I was reading recently, that Luftwaffe communications in the Battle of Britain were very lax in security,
and the information was of great use to British aircraft interception. 

I have all these publications I mention here but don't want to access them right now to cite the actual particulars. I found
there are very few readers indeed interested in such subjects.

Now I'm also recalling an issue of 'Worldradio' some years back where a U.S. veteran of the Pacific War recalled hearing 
Polish language on some Army VHF radio. 

Of course you recall in the hot cycle years of around 1956 ? - 1958 ? when U.S. hams were working South America with
2 watt walkie talkies on 10 meters. And then back to 1937, when it's claimed that harmonics from Amelia Earhart's 
6210 kHz transmitter were heard in the U.S. after she forced-landed on Nikumaroro. 
-Hue Miller