I recall reading about an US amateur radio intercept early in the North Africa contest between the Germans and the British. The distance was surprising.  The amateur reported it to US authorities. 

73 de Bart, K6VK ##
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 4:05 PM Gene Smar via ARC5 <arc5@mailman.qth.net> wrote:
Gents:

      I was checking the Intergoogle for info on Hams' rumored
interception of Rommel's Afrikacorps tank comms in 1940-41 when I ran
across this article: https://tinyurl.com/jfms8b4w .  FYI.  I started
reading it but didn't finish today.  It's caught my attention (my dad
was in the 424th IR of the Golden Lions 106th ID and had stories about
the Bulge that he never told us) so I'm committed to finishing it.

      On the topic of Rommel's 10-meter comms being intercepted by US
Hams, has anyone on the list read any definitive source of info on
this?  It makes sense if Rommel's tanks were equipped with ca. 30 MC
radios and there were bursts of solar activity during waning years of
Cycle 17 (1933-1944).  I'd like to include a reference to this
interception by Hams in my talk on squad radios and why, for example,
the PRC-9's frequency coverage overlaps that of armor and infantry
covered by PRC-8 and -10, respectively.  But I haven't been able to
locate any authoritative sources for this Rommelian info.  I have,
however, found info on an FCC-run interception station in Rhode Island:
https://stationhypo.com/2020/03/30/federal-communications-commission-intercept-site/
, but it doesn't involve Ham freqs.

      Much obliged.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


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