In a message dated 7/12/01 1:49:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< but if it was used to transmit signals, you gotta figure that any
 military bases in the area would have had ears out looking for just that
kind of
 thing - and static ground stations can be easy to locate...
  >>

Not in World War II. You can not equate modern technology with that back 60
years ago. A quick blast of signal on an odd bandwidth could not be tracked
in time to catch a clever spy. Heck, spies were transmitting secrets to
Soviet trawlers off the San Diego coast right up to 1991, when the Cold War
ended and no one caught them.