How many Normandy 2.0 Airfields used The Lorenz System in WWII

[DishDoggie]

I was looking up Beacon Info for Normandy 2.0 Airfields and got a little Education on 2 systems 1 is the Lorenz Radio Beam System and then the Pundit Beacon System. My Logic Ignorance in this was thinking (Beacon) = Signal of a Auditable Sound and in fact in this case Beacon = Visual and Beam = Auditable Systems.

So the Pundit Beacon would be setup on Airfields and a Morse Code would be Flashed to Aircraft to tell them What Airfield it was. If I get this Correct in 2 time periods during WWII they used 2 Letters for the Airfields Name to Flash then later it went to 3 letters but was Not based off the Airfields name. I believe 3 Lighthouse Beacons would be placed at each Airfield. I am now Thinking the Red lighting I see next to the Airfields in Normandy 2.0 are some kind of compromised unreal version of the Pundit Beacon OR I am still Ignorante of what they are. PLEASE give Input if you Know.

The Lorenz Radio Beam System works on 3 Radio Beamed Morse Codes of Left of Center Right of Center and Dead Center to the Runway. This System used Radio Beams to tell the Pilot the info of the Aircrafts position to the Airfield within a limited degree direction in front of the approached runway.

RIGHT of Runwas would Broadcast  - - - Morse Code

LEFT of the Runway would Broadcast  . . .  Morse Code

CENTER of Runway would Broadcast  _ . _ . _ .  Morse Code

DCS does have a Version of this System in it for use in WWII aircraft I have not tested it yet but I did see a YouTube Video of it in use made buy The Grim Reapers.

NOW THE TOPIC of the POST

How many Airfields in the UK used this Radio Beam system and the Pundit Beacon System? Was the Lorenz a Limited System or in wide spread use? Was the Pundit Beacon System in more wide spread use because of its lower Technology dependance of just portable maned Lighthouse units? Were they Both used at the Same Time on each Airfield?

Thanks for any Information you may have to share.

Edited June 8, 2023 by DishDoggie

[deep]

1 hour ago, DishDoggie said:

CENTER of Runway would Broadcast  _ . _ . _ .  Morse Code

I believe the center broadcast would just be a steady tone (all the gaps filled in).

[DishDoggie]

18 hours ago, deep said:

I believe the center broadcast would just be a steady tone (all the gaps filled in).

Yes in DCS they do one steady tone in the Historical real world it was _ . _ . _ . (I Stand Corrected Deep Is Correct. I read the Dash dot Dash Dot in a Wiki for Center) The below Video has a restored System. Very cool. Thank You birkenmoped

Edited June 9, 2023 by DishDoggie

[birkenmoped]

 

[DishDoggie]

Pundit Beacon

 

 

Edited June 9, 2023 by DishDoggie

[birkenmoped]

Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 France
(with Corsica and Channel Islands)
By Henry L. deZeng IV

https://www.ww2.dk/Airfields - France.pdf

 

for e.g.

 

Évreux-Fauville (FR) (a.k.a. Évreux/Ost) (49 01 30 N – 01 13 20 E) General: airfield in Normandy 80 km W of Paris, 5.6 km E of Évreux, 2.25 km E of Le Coudray and 1.5 km ESE of Fauville.
History: dates from the 1920s when it was first used for sport flying. A French Air Force base for Dewoitine fighters, Potez bombers and American- made aircraft duing the 1939 to 22 Jun 40 period. Extensively developed by the Lw. from late June 1940, Evreux-Fauville quickly became one of its principal bomber bases in northern France and remained so until 1944. Dimensions: approx. 1830 x 1370 meters (2,000 x 1,500 yards).
Surface and Runways: two concrete runways with concrete assembly hardstands built in the 1930s and laid out in the form of an “X” - (1) approx. 1645 meters (1800 yards) aligned NE/SW, and (2) approx. 1600 meters (1750 yards) aligned E/W. Otherwise, level grass on clay subsoil.
Extensive taxiways to dispersal areas. Both runways equipped with night landing capability (permanent illumination and flare-paths, visual Lorenz system, beam approach system).