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A previous post included a link to a page about the Seafire, which stated that the Seafire was fitted with HF radio for radio telephony, as well as VHF. I assume that this was for long range and low altitude operations - the VHF radio horizon for a ship is limited. I am assuming that as the war went on, the Swordfish gained a radio telephony capacity, but it still might have used Morse for long range communications via HF.
Just as fighters being controlled by shipborne controllers via radio using radar information is in many ways similar to modern operations, the use of radar equipped Swordfish ahead of a convoy and being cued by ships proving long range detection with HF/DF (High Frequency Direction Finding) is not dissimilar to the ASW operations of today, with frigates providing long range detection and helicopters providing localisation and attack.
Just as fighters being controlled by shipborne controllers via radio using radar information is in many ways similar to modern operations, the use of radar equipped Swordfish ahead of a convoy and being cued by ships proving long range detection with HF/DF (High Frequency Direction Finding) is not dissimilar to the ASW operations of today, with frigates providing long range detection and helicopters providing localisation and attack.
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