[Milsurplus] item of interest

[James Duffer]

You must remember that the British invented the magnetron.

The Germans may have "ruled the mound" but they didn't utilize what they had 
very effectively.

Jim de wd4air


>From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
>To: whitaker at ieee.org
>CC: Milsurplus Radios <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] item of interest
>Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:44:11 -0400
>
>>The Brits were far ahead of us on VHF techniques.
>
>What is "far"?  To be honest, I do not think far was very far at all.
>At most, maybe two years.
>
>>  Their
>>radar shows that.
>
>Do not sell the early US efforts so short - our first three radars
>(SCR-268, SCR-270/271, CXAM) were pretty good units when they started
>deployment in 1941. They had relatively few teething troubles compared
>to the British equipments that came before. They stayed in the labs
>and underwent trials far longer than the British sets that were often
>released for deployment while still in a prototyping stage. If the US
>was pressured to release the early sets as were the British, there
>would have been active (but buggy) radars in the US military in the
>late 1930s (SCR-268-T1, CXZ, XAF, and other stillborns and kludges).
>
>Anyway, the Germans ruled the VHF radar mound for the entire duration
>of the war.
>
>--
>Will
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