[Premium-Rx] Longwave Receiver Recommendations?

Nick England navy.radio at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 19:04:49 EDT 2020


I have consolidated info on the USN ELF system at
http://www.navy-radio.com/commsta-elf.htm

Best regards
Nick



On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 6:51 PM George Georgevits <georgg at bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> Gentlemen,
>
> ....I found the discussion on ELF and Terry's article of particular
> interest. Given the lengths they had to go to (pun intended) to transmit
> the signal, I wonder what aerial the submarine used to receive it?  Surely
> not a very long wire towed in the water??? I also wonder what Rx equipment
> they used, that is, before the days of SDR? A quick search on the Internet
> drew a complete blank on this subject, even though the 76Hz system was
> decommissioned (and presumably declassified)



Cheers,

George Georgevits
> VK2KGG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:
> premium-rx-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Terry O'
> Sent: Friday, 3 April 2020 12:29 PM
> To: premium-rx at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Longwave Receiver Recommendations?
>
> The data rate was ridiculously slow.  3 characters in 15 minutes.  I
> wrote an article for Popular Communications on it, which, now they are
> out of print, is on my website.
> http://blackradios.terryo.org/documents/publications/e-ELF.pdf
>
> Terry O'
>
>
> On 4/2/2020 8:14 PM, Jeremy Nichols wrote:
> > Is that the receiver the Navy used with a transmitter somewhere in the
> > upper Midwest? Michigan or Wisconsin? For communicating with subs under
> > water anywhere in the world. Very low data rate.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
>
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