"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:
My understanding is that at station depth the only real signal the SSBNs
could get was the ELF (?) signal which was on the order of bits per second?

You assume our antennae and our hull are at the same depth, they
aren't. Underway we stream a buoy above/behind the boat that carries
our antennae.

i.e. it made a 300 baud modem look fast. So, assuming 30 bits/second, or
roughly 4 ASCII characters/second. 240 characters per minute.

Hm, yeah, I guess that's higher than I initially thought.

It wasn't ASCII, it was alphanumeric teletype code.

30 bits/sec = 6 chars/sec = 360 characters a minute.
360 chars/min *60mins/hour *24hours/day = 518,400 chars/day.

Not much by 'modern' standards, but a half a meg of text is a
substantial chunk. Even more when you consider a goodly number of the
'words' are actually abbreviations.

D.
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