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| Keywords: Bernhard antenna at Bredstedt 1945.jpg A German Telefunken FuSAn 724/725 Bernhard Be 09 navigation antenna at Bredstedt Schleswig-Holstein Germany in August 1945 It was a framework device used as a radio aid to navigation 40 m wide and 32 m high It worked by revolving on its own base every thirty seconds and was operated 24 hours a day The function of the transmitter was to send out automatic signals giving the bearing of the main transmitter lobe as it revolved Thus any aircraft within range and fitted with appropriate receiver could obtain a bearing on any one Bernhard twice every minute The signals were coded but were printed on a teleprinter in the aircraft so that they could be read off directly The site at Bredstedt had been used in 1940 for the FuG28a Knickebein SUK14632 1945-08 Australian armed forces Image copyright Copyright expired - public domain frame cropped 54 38 38 N 08 56 43 E PD-Australia World War II German radars Bredstedt Black and white photographs | ||||
