[Milsurplus] Radar

[Nick England]

"RDF" was adopted for British Commonwealth use in 1935. It was replaced by "radar" in 1943. Reference "Britain's Shield" by David Zimmerman (which I am currently reading, otherwise I wouldnt have found the answer so quickly). So it depends on when the Foyle's War episode was set. 

Nick
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On May 28, 2013, at 6:43 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> The "D" is "Direction", not "Detection".  The former is far more useful 
> than the latter.
> 
> Foyles War is one of my all-time favorite British series
> 
> Robert D.
> 
> In a message dated 5/28/2013 5:32:03 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> w7ms20wpm at sbcglobal.net writes: 
>> Radar was secretly developed by several nations before and during World 
>> War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an 
>> acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging
>> 
>> From Wikipedia
>> 
>> W7MS
>> 
>> 
>> --- On Tue, 5/28/13, Jack Antonio <scr287 at att.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> From: Jack Antonio <scr287 at att.net>
>> Subject: [Milsurplus] Radar
>> To: "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 2:32 PM
>> 
>> 
>> When did the term "radar" come into general usage?
>> 
>> I was just watching a TV series (Foyle's War) and
>> an episode plot line revolved around a Chain Home
>> station. The term RDF was mentioned, but was generally
>> referred to during the episode as radar. The time frame
>> of the episode was August 1940.
>> 
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