The U.S. Navy Project ELF managed to generate extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation at down to $\approx 76$ Hz (implying a wavelength of $\approx 3,945$ km!). I was curious, what kind of receiving antennas do submarines use to actually pick up these ELF signals? What are the size requirements? Do submarines just trail a very long cable that approximates a monopole or dipole antenna, use electrical lengthening to shorten the antenna to some length $\approx 3,945/k$ km, where $k \in \mathbb{Z}$, and then travel along an optimal vector to pick up a transmitted signal?
[Physics] How is extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation collected by a submarine antenna
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Best Answer
There exist a wiki article on this, project elf.
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As fore receiving antennas, they do not have to be large.It is the generation of a frequency modulated with a signal that needs the full wavelength length. The receiver if the signal is strong works with smaller dimensions.
This might help somebody designing an antenna.