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[OM] Re: Birth of Radar and C-360 or 370

Subject: [OM] Re: Birth of Radar and C-360 or 370
From: Mark Marr-Lyon <mark.marrlyon@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:04:19 -0700
Thanks Chris!  I knew a couple, but not most of them.  I was also
going to call them initialisms for the pedants out there, but
discovered that acronym can also mean an initialism.  Of course that
was from www.m-w.com, the merits of which I believe have been
discussed here before ;-)

Mark

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:42:53 +0000, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> A small glossary for you Mark M-L:
> 
> CH: Chain Home, the name for the network of radars used in WWII on the
> English coast.
> 
> IFF: identification friend or foe, now called SSR or secondary
> surveillance radar in which the aircraft uses a transponder to reply to
> certain sorts of radar signal and provide information.  In war time it
> is coded and identifies a friend; in peacetime it merely identifies
> different traffic in the air and gives its flight level or altitude.
> 
> RDF: radio direction-finding, as opposed to ranging.
> 
> AI: air-intercept radar.
> 
> TX:     transmitter station.
> 
> GEE and OBOE were homing signals to assist with navigation for bombers.
> 
> H2S: a model of radar that was first used in Lancasters and other
> bombers (and night fighters I think), but a derivation of which was
> still used in Cold War bomber, the Vulcan.
> 
> That's all I (think I) know ;-)  They're all abbreviations, rather than
> acronyms like RADAR.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 6 Jan 2005, at 19:54, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
> 
> > That is interesting.  I wish I knew what all the acronyms stood for :)
> >
> > Mark

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