[Milsurplus] Radar

[B. Smith]

Radar is on "Mash"



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> On 5/28/2013 8:02 PM, Mike Hanz wrote:
>> 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
>>>
>>> ============
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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