[Milsurplus] Radar

[J. Forster]

You gotta make allowances for help in wartime. LoL

-John

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> Don't shoot the messenger... :-)
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> On 5/28/2013 7:31 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> With all due respect, acronyms are capitalized, and RADAR is an acronym,
>> just like LORAN, SONAR, NASA, USAAF, USN, USAF, NOTO, SEATO, NORAD, CIA,
>> NSA, DOD, LASER, MASER, LIDAR, ....
>>
>> -John
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>>> On 5/28/2013 6:43 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>>>> The "D" is "Direction", not "Detection".  The former is far more
>>>> useful
>>>> than the latter.
>>> Not originally, Robert.  The November 1940 CNO letter is quite
>>> specific,
>>> and it combined a number of separate project names that the NRL was
>>> running simultaneously, one of which was "Radio Detection".  No clue as
>>> to when it might have been later changed to "direction" - there is no
>>> such reference in the book.
>>>
>>> The NRL document uses both capitalized RADAR and small letter radar
>>> (such as radars), depending on context, so John, you need to talk with
>>> them about your views on proper usage.:-)
>>>
>>> Jack, I note that the NRL text records that the British continued to
>>> use
>>> the term RDF until 1943, "when "radar" [sic] was adopted by
>>> international agreement."  The British television shows are usually
>>> extremely well researched.
>>>
>>>        73,
>>>    - Mike
>>>
>>>
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