Talk:Oboe (navigation)

(Observer Bombing Over Enemy) removal

I have removed the above acronym as it is almost ceratinly a backward one, i.e. applied after the fact. Oboe was not short for anything, it was a normal code name with no meaning whatsoever, the most plausible choice of-which being due to the resemblance of the tones heard in the pilot's/operator's headphones resembling that of an Oboe.

If anyone wants to put in a section about possible interpreted meanings and include it there, then feel free. Ian Dunster 13:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

No. British code names were allocated on a random basis, so that the code was unlikely to reveal anything about the project. Contrast Germany whose project codes invariably betrayed some feature of the project it was designed to protect. For example the nam of the Freyer radar betrayed the range of 100 miles (though not quite directly as Freyer was an indirect reference to Hemdahl who had a magic eye that could see for a hundered miles, day ot night).

GEE

Why does the article have a picture of the GEE CRT display. It has nothing to do with the subject. Oboe had no aircraft display as it was controlled from the ground.

The picture has been removed as it indeed is unrelated to Oboe. The picture was correctly identified by the above (anonymous) contributor as belonging the Gee (the position of the two blips are the timing pulses to be looked up on the Gee navigation chart. Oboe was entirely a transponder based system and had no aircraft display as it was controlled from the ground stations. I B Wright 12:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Oboe (navigation)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Oboe (navigation)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "diary":

• From Operation Hurricane (1944): "October 1944". Campaign Diary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
• From Bouncing bomb: "Campaign Diary" (html). Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
• From RAF Bomber Command: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
• From Tallboy bomb: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24. 1944: June, July, August, September, October, November, December 1945: January, February, March, April
• From Area bombing directive: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
• From Submarine pen: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24. 1942: June, 1944: July, August, September, October, November, December 1945: January, February, March, April
• From Grand Slam bomb: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24. March, April
• From Operation Bellicose: "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
• From Battle of the Ruhr: Staff. "Campaign Diary". Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. UK Crown. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 22:57, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Another reference

The M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory Series, published probably in 1946 by McGraw-Hill, has several descriptive references to Oboe, Gee, and other WW II electronic navigation systems, including technical details. The series has been available as a CD from Artech House for $350 US, but at least some individual volumes (which ones, however, contain specific material, I don't know, unfortunately) are available online. Nikevich (talk) 09:17, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Vol 3 starting at p14 looks like the Oboe section. (Skip the "pre" pdfs; they're TOC only, AFAI can tell.) TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 00:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)