[Milsurplus] Radar

[J. Forster]

Actually Radar was on M*A*S*H

NPAA

-John

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> Radar is on "Mash"
>
>
>
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> On 5/28/2013 8:02 PM, Mike Hanz wrote:
>>> Don't shoot the messenger... :-)
>>>
>>> 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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