[Milsurplus] Radar

[Mike Hanz]

On 5/29/2013 10:48 PM, Al Klase wrote:
> I believe the Brits generally used the term RDF (Radio Direction 
> Finding) at least in the early going, as it obfuscates the underlying 
> technology.

True...see link below.

> The story is told and retold at U.S. Army's Camp Evans in New Jersey, 
> now the home of the InfoAge Science History Learning Center and 
> Museum, that when the installation was set up in early 1942, a large 
> sign was erected identifying it as the Signal Corps Radar Laboratory. 
> Someone pointed out that the word itself was classified, and the name 
> was promptly changed to The Evans Signal Laboratory.

Probably apocryphal?  I mentioned excerpts from the horse's mouth NRL 
history document a couple of days ago, but folks might be interested in 
the original document, posted here: 
http://aafradio.org/docs/NRL_term_RADAR.jpg

Radar, or RADAR as some folks prefer, was the *unclassified* name from 
the very beginning, as you can see in para 3 of the document.

      73,
  - Mike