Metox

[Kal_Maximus_U669]

Big Vern! Great Necro!< at least providing a ready-made cross you could pray to when being depth charged!

Here is the manual that goes with it.... to save your skin.......

[Hooston]

I've been thinking again about an allied PoW spreading the story that the allies were homing on spurious Metox emissions. Doesn't it come from RV Jones' book? I can't remember. I always got the impression that the Prof liked his stories.
It doesn't seem a very likely tale for a serviceman to come up with. Is it not possible that this particular crewman was indeed using his ASV mk II radar to detect Metox emissions? Metox might show up as a uniform shifting of the line on his "A scope" display, depending on the exact setup of the ASV receiver and display circuitry. If he was doing so it would make him more likely to find a uboat and thus also more likely to get shot down and captured!

I don't suppose we will ever know as everyone involved is pushing up the daisies. I suppose it makes no difference to the outcome - a lot of spurious activity from the Germans and even deactivation of the receiver at one point.

[Shadowblade]

Originally Posted by Hooston

I've been thinking again about an allied PoW spreading the story that the allies were homing on spurious Metox emissions. Doesn't it come from RV Jones' book? I can't remember. I always got the impression that the Prof liked his stories.

source should be:
Ratcliff, R. A. (14 August 2006). Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 0521855225