[ARC5] ARC5 Digest, Vol 66, Issue 36

[Jim]

The Chain Home system used a net of primitive RADARS around the East and 
South of England.

The real genius was in the data collection.  Air Marshall Dowding had all 
the sites (and visual observers) linked to central operations rooms.  The 
sightings could be plotted (as seen in so many old war movies) and the 
Senior officers could direct the defense.

The Germans never figured out the system and while they tried to bomb the 
RADAR sites, they never went after the relatively unprotected operations 
rooms that were the heart of the system.

Jim

> If I remember, I'll look for them tomorrow and send you the
>> info. Right now, it's off to cut some z-z-z-z-zs.
>
>
> Okay, so I lied a bit. Curiosity got the better of me and I did a
> quick search which produced this most excellent response:
>
> http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites/b/bawdsey_radar/
>
> Pictures, drawings, and hyperlinks galore. And I gotta say - that's
> some house! That something as amazing as RADAR was being played with
> there back in the mid-1930s is just incredible.