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was using the new technique. The designers of the listening receivers had overlooked the fact that supersonic reception involves a wider bandwidth than normal in the high frequency circuits of the receivers. Once this was corrected, 80 Wing was able to jam the beam and reduce the 50 per cent success
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raids to 13 per cent and the campaign petered out. R.V. Jones estimated that the delay in allowing 80 Wing to begin jamming cost about 400 lives and another 600 serious injuries, while
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frequency. 80 Wing was able to add supersonic modulation to its jammers but was briefed not to employ this countermeasure until listening stations had confirmed that the
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frequency. These were quickly replaced by higher powered equipment called '
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equipment in a shot down aircraft that it contained a filter set to 2,000
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directional beams, which in turn were eventually jammed by 80 Wing in the
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In 1977 Addison appeared in the BBC television programme
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Addison was born on 4 October 1898 and served with the
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133:No. 80 Wing
130:(1943–1945)
125:(1946–1949)
63:4 July 1987
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709:R.V. Jones
679:References
448:modulation
399:R.V. Jones
342:Knickebein
338:Knickebein
330:Knickebein
272:Knickebein
81:Allegiance
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767:New title
527:Weybridge
500:Luftwaffe
467:targets.
452:Luftwaffe
430:Luftwaffe
395:Air Staff
366:Luftwaffe
326:diathermy
303:Luftwaffe
278:Luftwaffe
257:from the
251:Cambridge
104:1918–1955
76:, England
70:Weybridge
55:, England
53:Cambridge
465:Baedeker
457:Baedeker
403:Coventry
371:Midlands
334:Aspirins
119:Commands
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