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Originally Posted by NoPegs
It also ran interference  for Britain in the battle of the beams against the Nazi's 3rd attempt at radio-navigation and bombing, known as Y-Gerät. The Germans happened to pick ~45MHz for their system, and with minimal tweaking, London had one hell of a countermeasure available. |
Ah yes NoPegs an interesting subject. I've read a few books on the 'Battle of the beams' fascinating stuff. The BBC shut down the transmitter just before war was declared, 'to prevent German aircraft using it as a beacon' they said! But did they know what was coming & so might need it for something else? The BBC radio programs on long wave & medium wave (AM) were made a single frequency synchronized network to prevent them being used as radio beacons..