d. Visual communications will be used mainly for communications with a unit within sight.
P. 276, Japanese Monograph #118: Operational History of Naval Communications, 1941 Dec-1945 Aug18,
The "mainly" has me perplexed.
d. Visual communications will be used mainly for communications with a unit within sight.
To me it looks logical. Beyond visual range comms better served by radio.OpanaPointer wrote: ↑24 Nov 2021, 20:52d. Visual communications will be used mainly for communications with a unit within sight.
P. 276, Japanese Monograph #118: Operational History of Naval Communications, 1941 Dec-1945 Aug18,
The "mainly" has me perplexed.
You can relay message from A to B - even if they're not within sight - via other ships. Of course in the relay relay line each ship had to be within sight.OpanaPointer wrote: ↑25 Nov 2021, 17:57I read it as "even if they're not within sight visual communications may be used."