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03-06-06, 12:21 AM | #16 |
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ummm, what he said
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03-06-06, 10:11 AM | #17 | |
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03-06-06, 04:04 PM | #18 |
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hey xrvjorn, could you post a pic of your rig? that sounds like a supercomputer...
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03-06-06, 05:29 PM | #19 |
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Don't know about radar detector-detector-detectors to combat speed radars but I do know that radar jammers are now coming down in price- should be ordering one this spring. Supposedly the good ones work pretty well against everything except lasar speed detection.
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04-22-24, 02:42 PM | #22 |
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Metox did leek the signal from its Local Oscillator out of the Biscay Cross aerial and it was detectable from a homing receiver on an aircraft at ranges up to 50Km. The Germans knew the Local Oscillator frequency of the equipment, built a homing Receiver and trialled it in July 1943. The Story about the RAF pilot saying the British were homing on Metox is also true, he was interrogated in Early August 1943 and the U-Boat command were informed on the same day.
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04-24-24, 04:11 AM | #23 |
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Cold war stories
i used to work as an aircraft electromagnetic compatibility engineer about 15 years ago. Post war military comms gear has some antenna terminal tests to pass to make sure they do not leak any compromising (or more usually irritating) signals. TV sets in the UK used to deliberately leak the local oscillator so that "detector vans" could find people watching TV without a licence, although I believe more usually it was done by peeking through the curtains!
As you might expect from a quick lash up, Metox leaked its local oscillator signal. As some posters have said the Germans got in a panic about it thanks to some genius PoW shooting a line, but the Allies never made use of the signals. Thanks to wolfpack tactics and Doenitz's control freak command style Uboats made regular reports over HF which gave away their position even when the signal could not be decripted. According to Prof R V Jones' book the Germans also fell for the "Crosse and Blackwell" super bomber thanks to another PoW. |
04-24-24, 10:07 AM | #24 | |
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welcome aboard!
Big Vern! Great Necro!< at least providing a ready-made cross you could pray to when being depth charged!??
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04-29-24, 04:22 PM | #25 |
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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....... |
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