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CCIP · 11-17-14, 03:00 PM

I'm pretty sure that was a case of just ordinary DF intercept rather than Bletchley Park. The radio transmission in question was, among other things, exceptionally long (some sources I read state that the transmission lasted a full 30 minutes).

The decoding of messages was far from instantaneous and I believe at that point in the war it took an average of 30 hours for a message to be decoded. Strategically, ULTRA was extremely important but operationally it was not of much use - a ship can be practically anywhere 30 hours later. On the other hand, DF intercepts were fairly reliable, provided the contact could be sighted and shadowed after the transmission.

11-17-14, 03:00 PM	#9
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I'm pretty sure that was a case of just ordinary DF intercept rather than Bletchley Park. The radio transmission in question was, among other things, exceptionally long (some sources I read state that the transmission lasted a full 30 minutes). The decoding of messages was far from instantaneous and I believe at that point in the war it took an average of 30 hours for a message to be decoded. Strategically, ULTRA was extremely important but operationally it was not of much use - a ship can be practically anywhere 30 hours later. On the other hand, DF intercepts were fairly reliable, provided the contact could be sighted and shadowed after the transmission. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)