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Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen
Posted by: Rainer Bruns ()
Date: March 29, 2005 04:16AM

Hi Clio,
Elektra-Sonne was sort of a crude predessesor of the American Loran A (and later C) and the British Decca Radio Navigation System. A Master transmitter in Thuringia and several slave transmitters as far apart as No.Spain and So. Norway were sending timed signals, which could be received by snorkeling Uboats at periscope depths. Interpolation of the relative bearing lines was to give the navigators a reasonably accurate fix. Well, the whole system was not quite ready for prime time yet, but occasionally gave better position fixes than dead reconning for weeks on end.
Not sure about Nauen, but suspect your guess is correct. It might be the code name of one of those slave transmitters.
The British code name the whole system Consolan, if I remember correctly. Rgds, RB

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Elektra-Sonne and Nauen clio 03/27/2005 11:04AM
Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen Rainer Bruns 03/29/2005 04:16AM
Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen clio 03/29/2005 06:11PM
Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen Ramiro 04/18/2009 03:00PM
Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen Dirk 04/01/2005 12:09PM
Re: Nauen - Rainer Bruns 04/01/2005 01:29PM
Re: Nauen - Dirk 04/02/2005 09:19AM
Re: Nauen - Sniper 04/13/2005 02:11PM
Re: Elektra-Sonne and Nauen Simon Gunson 03/19/2006 01:32AM


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