wm wrote: ... But because the mission required limited functionality from the transmitter, and the distance was short there are a few tricks that would render even the British jammers powerless.
Not really. There are some that might have helped but no where near 100% effective. The distance from the V-1 impact zones to the German recivers compared to the distance of the British jammers to the same is the critical factor. Some of the British jammers could and likely would have been closer than impact zones to the German recievers.
The V-1 could have transmited only during the last, let's say, 30 seconds before the dive. This, without prior knowledge of the frequency dialed into the transmitter couldn't be jammed.
That doesn't give the Germans a whole lot of time to triangulate the location. The British should be able to start jamming soon after the Germans start trying to triangulate as well. The British could also use broad band jamming.
All the bombs could have carried the transmitters but only few of them used for aiming, all of them couldn't be jammed because jamming requires much more resources that transmitting.
No. In some cases in requires less. If there are a bunch of V-1s transmitting at one time they are to some extent jamming themselves. Note that British ground stations would have much more power available than the V-1's as well.
And the VHF range could have been used. It's so vast, capable of carrying more than 50 thousand voice channels simultaneously, so the transmissions couldn't be located, and jammers dialed in the frequency in a reasonable amount of time.
Remember if you have multiple V-1s then the recieving stations also have to dial in the right frequencies and from what I recall radios of the period were not the most frequency stable.
But because the V-1 was a a resonant jet, it's engine was a quite accurate clock.
Really? Just putting in a little bit of extra or not quite as much as desired fuel would throw it off some. Fuel, air, and even V-1 temperatures would likely have some impact as well. Not to mention the impact of weather conditions.
they saw no reason for this, the engine was good in this role.
If your object was to hit England certainly it was good enough. If your object was to hit Greater London it was rather maraginal. If you wanted even more accuracy it simply wasn't up to it.
And a shorter flight means less time for external factors, like the English weather, to disturb accuracy, and that would be nice.
Not neccessarily. Encountering rain for instance at greater velocities might result in greater inaccuracy rather than lesser. Since air friction is a function of the power of the velocity grearter velocity could also mean that head winds cause a greater impact as well. I am inclined to suspect you may be correct here but it would take some very detailed analysis to confirm it and at least in some cases it could be wrong.