[ARC5] FM and TV Frequencies

[Jim Haynes]

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> Another factor in the shift was that much development had already been done.
>
J> In Great Britain the radar people decided to use the pre-war TV band 
fJor the first airborne intercept radars, since it was not being used and 
thJere were off the shelf TRF TV receivers available that would do nicely 
as radar receivers.

I remember reading in one book of radar history that the writer said they
were working (in England) with the cutting edge of technology trying to
generate high power at VHF.  And the only books they had for guidance was
the ARRL Handbook.