Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
:

gained an circulation. The basics of Radar Technology was worked out at
MIT in the late 30's after trading the British Magnitron Prototype
for all those Lend - Lease Destroyers.

Bruce in alaska who also has one of those things on the wall......


Huh?? The first radars were on VHF! They operated on common vacuum tubes,
not microwave magnetrons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A591545

Larry,
Did you read the info on the link? The first radar system was the
British Chain Home (CH) that operated on 20 Mhz. My frequency chart
lists that as HF.
krj

Larry W4CSC wrote:

Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
:


gained an circulation. The basics of Radar Technology was worked out at
MIT in the late 30's after trading the British Magnitron Prototype
for all those Lend - Lease Destroyers.

Bruce in alaska who also has one of those things on the wall......



Huh?? The first radars were on VHF! They operated on common vacuum tubes,
not microwave magnetrons. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A591545

krj wrote in
:

Larry,
Did you read the info on the link? The first radar system was the
British Chain Home (CH) that operated on 20 Mhz. My frequency chart
lists that as HF.
krj


'Scuze me! In 1930, 20 Mhz was UHF, not VHF....(c;

Way back there, someplace, the genius engineers declared anything above 2
Mhz was useless, so they gave all freqs above 2 Mhz to us ham radio
operators. The sleazy *******s been stealin it back from us ever since!

NNNN

AR