The WWII Spy Station That Eavesdropped on the Entire World

[Daelyn75]

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/the-wwii-spy-station-that-eavesdropped-on-the-entire-world/

I just read about this a few days ago and I was wondering if many others had also heard of it? Accordingly, Chopmist Hill should be in the game in some capacity if it really was this important. The US should get a higher decryption ability after constructing these listening posts, especially Chopmist Hill. It could be a decision unlocked by a focus.

Funny that I have been reading about WW2 since I was 13 and now that I am 42 I come across this. It's quite fascinating the power that Chopmist Hill held for the allies. They were listening to tank to tank communications in Rommel's army in North Africa all the way over in Rhode Island.

"Unique among receiving stations, Chopmist Hill had the uncanny ability to send and receive radio signals from any place on earth, and it has been credited as one most important factors in the Allied’ victory in WWII. "

I don't think this should be left out of the game, personally.

 

[Agiknight]

"the communications between individual tanks, very close to each other, in North Africa, were being picked up by a farmhouse many thousands of miles away."

Is this really possible? It seems quite outlandish to me, I have also never heard of this station before, but I am not a huge WW2 buff outside of this game.

 

[Azkor]

Ok was sort of skeptical about this claim, but looked it up and darned if the NSA didnt publish an article about it, apparently you could listen to Cairo from this place clearly on low powered radio, thats some crazy stuff.

Link to NSA article. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/d...today-articles/assets/files/30_March_2010.pdf

 

[Eh up me duck]

"the communications between individual tanks, very close to each other, in North Africa, were being picked up by a farmhouse many thousands of miles away."

How would a receiver be able to distinguish that one communication from the hundreds of thousands of other radio signals being emitted worldwide?

 

[Meglok]

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/03/the-wwii-spy-station-that-eavesdropped-on-the-entire-world/

I just read about this a few days ago and I was wondering if many others had also heard of it? Accordingly, Chopmist Hill should be in the game in some capacity if it really was this important. The US should get a higher decryption ability after constructing these listening posts, especially Chopmist Hill. It could be a decision unlocked by a focus.

Funny that I have been reading about WW2 since I was 13 and now that I am 42 I come across this. It's quite fascinating the power that Chopmist Hill held for the allies. They were listening to tank to tank communications in Rommel's army in North Africa all the way over in Rhode Island.

"Unique among receiving stations, Chopmist Hill had the uncanny ability to send and receive radio signals from any place on earth, and it has been credited as one most important factors in the Allied’ victory in WWII. "

I don't think this should be left out of the game, personally.

There was also a station in Pearl for listening in the Pacific. The Brits had one in England and one in the Pacific until Singapore was lost, think it moved to India afterwards.

The Germans did the same from receivers in Europe, and the Japanese had a station in the Marshalls if I remember correctly. The Germans were adept at intercepting aircraft comms to give them info on raids.

Everyone tried to listen in on radio comms, and everyone tried to use code to keep their intent a secret. Still didn't stop direction finding, which helped put the U boats out of business.

This is generically represented now by encryption and decryption. The electronics tech tree is ripe for expansion.

 

[Jmland]

It has to do with skip zones and the upper layers of the atmosphere where low power radio waves bounce back at an angle and go round and round the earth until they are too faint to hear. But as for "one location" that can hear everything in the world.....I'm calling B.S on that. If that place in New England truly was where "every radio signal from all over the world" could be heard, then that's where NSA HQ would be.

 

[Quantum_AI]

That article is a gross exaggeration.

The Imperial War Museum in Bohn, Germany is quoted as saying“Chopmist Hill won the war for the allies"

That can be said about thousands of things and HAS been said about thousands of things by hundreds of credible sources. The Atom Bomb, breaking Enigma, general Patton ;p

Unique among receiving stations, Chopmist Hill had the uncanny ability to send and receive radio signals from any place on earth

This part is just hilarious and shows how little the author knows about basic science. Radio signals can get reflected, deflected or refracted by the ionsphere. This is how you could pick up wireless signals without line of sight. However, the level of ionisation anywhere itself is not a constant. It happens due to certain wavelength radiation coming form the sun and can change day-to-day and from season to season. So that "location" was nothing special.

Finally, as @Eh up me duck as stated, you would be picking up thousands of radio signals. It's trivial to be able to do that. What would be game-changing is the ability to filter those messages. Even today, agencies can easily tap into the the broadband backbone and listen to all internet traffic, but the real trick is to build algorithms and have enough computing power to filter the useful ones from the chaff.

 

[Lykanion]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that there's such a thing as an "Imperial War Museum in Bonn, West Germany".