From: Steve Grammont (islander@midmaine.com)
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 14:04:12 PST
>EMI is an equal oppourtunity interference: Your radios, or the enemys
>radios i.e indicating someone is around with an unsuppresses electrical
>system
I would assume that you would not get significant interference with a
WWII based radio system unless you were basically right on top of a
unsuppressed vehicle. Plus, sound carries a lot further than electrical
interference, so chances are you would hear the thing a lot sooner than
you would have it mess up your radio trasmission. Therefore, practically
speaking I think the only concern is for the vehicle carrying the radio,
not for being detected by the enemy. In other words, the Weasel (or
CCKW) was not "silenced" so the enemy wouldn't detect it, but so that
vehicle wouldn't mess up radio signals from radios mounted in it. Hence
the benefit of marking the vehicle "S". This means any dope radio
operator would know that this would be a "safe" vehicle to use.
Just speculation :-)
Steve
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