gums, reading Spitfire on my Tail, the first book of Erich Steinhilper's excellent trilogy, it's clear that Germany was some way behind the Allies in the field of integrated air defence at the time of the Battle of Britain.
Freya and Wurzburg might have been under development, but in 1940 some of the ex-Condor Legion pilots such as Adolf Galland didn't even want radios in their Bf109s, complaining that the weight wasn't worth it! Those fighters which did have radio used HF voice (around 5 MHz) and the bombers used MF WT (at around 1.3 MHz) - so the escort fighters couldn't even communicate with the bombers they were escorting! Sorted out later though, with VHF comms at around 40 MHz, but by then it was too late.
On ADEXs, comms spoofing was easily ignored if it came from a 360 Sqn Canberra as the background inverter noise was all too obvious. One of the best spoofs was a reply of the previous days comms exactly 24 hours later - it caused enormous confusion!
Last edited by BEagle; 21st Dec 2017 at 21:27.