German Anti-Shipping Rocket

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WaltBJ wrote:
I have a vague recollection of reasding somehwere that a lash-up
jamming system involving tuning to the VHF guidance channel and using
an electric razor as the jamming source actually worked. Whether the
razor's noise was used to feed a mike or they actually wired the hash
from its drive system to modulate the VHF signal - I can't remember. I
do have some books with pictures of WW2 ships with jamming antennae on
the yardarms.

ISTR the "discovery" was simply the radio noise from a badly-made
electric razor - amplification and transmission from aerials would
make it more effective, of course, and presumably once it was
realised that broad-band noise would do the trick this was done in
short order.
The story is that the team lost with Egret were attempting to pick
out the frequency used by Hs293 and jam it on using a fairly narrow-
band signal. Unfortunately it didn't work.

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