Radio France’s Sibyle Veil has been elected as Chair of the new EBU Radio Committee at the 29th Radio Assembly in Athens. She has been President and CEO of Radio France since 2018. Aside from her strong conviction that radio has a bright future – “Audio is the new cool!”, as she says – the need for increased.
That is a big installation, but completely useless for civilians: They needed this type of equipment to not miss the direction to very sporadic transmissions. Another usage of such systems than shown in the video was the position finding of foreign submarines.
A submarine gets much more valuable if the other side has no idea where it is. But even submarines have to communicate with their command from time to time. When they had to do it by shortwave, they definitely tried to reduce the duration of their transmissions as far as possible.
The U-Boot swarms of the Nazis coordinated their attacks on allied convoys by single Morse code letters. On the long run it did not help them as the allies developed a direction finding system with two loop antennas at a 90° angle and a display on an oscilloscope.