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Metox transmissions
Posted by: SuperKraut ()
Date: August 26, 2001 09:05PM

<HTML>\">…later in the war the germans realized,that the metox was emitting waves that were used by allied airplanes to home in to the boat and drop a bomb blindly.<\" There is a rather long story behind this statement. A properly shielded Metox could not be detected by a radio receiver. This was tested at the time the Metox was adopted. However, this device was made in France and who is to say all of the production sets were properly shielded. Building a good RF shield around an HF device is not straightforward and it is easy to make it leaky if you want to.

Further, the British put out a rumor that they were tuning in on the Metox to discourage the U-boat crews from using it and to help hide ULTRA by putting the Germans on the wrong track.

I personally have a hard time believing many U-boats were sunk because of a leaky Metox.

BTW, Naxos was developed by the Luftwaffe to locate British bombers who were using SN2 radar as a tool to find their target. Naxos was in very short supply and very few U-boats got the sets.

Regards,
SuperKraut
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Metox vrs FuMB Peter 08/25/2001 12:32PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Erik E 08/25/2001 05:31PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Rainer Kolbicz 08/25/2001 05:32PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB oliver 08/25/2001 08:25PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Antonio Veiga 08/25/2001 09:52PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Antonio Veiga 08/25/2001 10:09PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB walter M 08/26/2001 08:22PM
Metox transmissions SuperKraut 08/26/2001 09:05PM
RE: Metox transmissions kurt 08/26/2001 09:31PM
RE: Metox transmissions SuperKraut 08/27/2001 06:20AM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos walter M 08/27/2001 12:56PM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos Steve Cooper 08/28/2001 09:35PM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos walter M 08/28/2001 10:54PM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos John R. 08/29/2001 03:20PM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos Barry Williams 08/30/2001 11:39AM
RE: Metox &amp; Naxos Steve Cooper 08/29/2001 05:28PM
The HF war at sea SuperKraut 08/30/2001 10:16AM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Antonio Veiga 08/25/2001 09:24PM
RE: Metox vrs FuMB Nicolo 08/26/2001 06:45AM
Thank-you and one more Peter 08/26/2001 10:00AM
RE: Thank-you and one more oliver 08/26/2001 10:26AM
RE: Thank-you and one more Erik E 08/26/2001 11:11AM
RE: Thank-you and one more Peter 08/26/2001 12:28PM
RE: Thank-you and one more Antonio Veiga 08/26/2001 06:32PM
RE: Thank-you and one more Peter 08/27/2001 05:02AM
RE: Snowflake and more Antonio Veiga 08/27/2001 06:04PM
RE: Thank-you and one more Peter 08/26/2001 12:42PM
RE: Thank-you and one more oliver 08/26/2001 06:35PM


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