Anonymous User Wrote:
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> 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


it is not truth that the system was famous by the English like consol, was the Dr Kramar that I call pre-sonne-consol in the first patent in 1938 and Goldman in the second patent in the 1940, the English knew this system 3 or 4 later