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FuG 10 EK Luftwaffe radio equipment |
During
the the 1930s the German enterprise Lorenz AG developed the well known
by now aircraft radio system FuG 10 (FunkGerät) with two wave ranges: FunkGerät
10 Emfänger Langwelle(EL) and FunkGerät 10
Empfänger Kurzwelle(EK).
Since 1939 it was the preferred system in all large aircraft (Luftwaffe) with several
crew members like Henkel He 111, Messerschmidt ME 110, Junkers Ju 88 and
Dornier DO 217.
According to Wikipedia military products from
Lorenz during WWII included land-based and airborne radars, two-way radio sets,
wire recorders, radio tubes, and Germany’s most secure communications device,
the Lorenz cipher machine. Lorenz owned 25% of Focke-Wulf, the German aircraft
firm that built some of the most successful Luftwaffe fighter aircraft.
FuG 10 series: are a family of transceivers for
both R/T and W/T communications. The German FUG-10 panel, or rack, contained
two transmitters and two receivers: One transmitter and its companion receiver
operated in the MF or Longwave; 300 to 600 kHz (1,000 to 500 m) range and the
other transmitter and its companion receiver operated in the HF or Shortwave
range; 3 to 6 MHz (100 to 50 m). Most of the FuG 10 series used a fixed wire
aerial between the fuselage and tailfin or a retractable trailing aerial wire.
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