TV Tonight

[spekesoftly]

Wednesday 10/9/03 CH5 (UK) 19.30 - 20.00 BST - 'Heroes of World War II'

Documentary about Radar inventor Robert Watson-Watt


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[astir 8]

Yeah watched it

the TV B********s came through again e.g.

a) radar was "invented" by Watson-Watt - the concept was patented by a German in about 1905 (technically impractical at the time admittedly)

b) the Germans knew nothing about radar early in the war - so how come theirs was better than the UK's? (Seetakt, Freya, Wurzburg etc!)

c) centrimetric radar (= the cavity magnetron) was the first shipborne/airborne radar able to detect U boats

but at least they did mention sector stations and the use to which radar was put. And all the Spitfires were in period - no shots of Mark IX's participating in the Battle of Britain.

So it wasn't all bad

[You want it when?]

Scruffy presenter though. Seemed to rush through it all at the end. Twas worth watching though, so thanks spekesoftly for the heads up.

A. C. Clarkes "Glide Path" is a fiction book on a similiar subject of turning rader into a GPA system - worth a read if you ever find a copy.

[Vfrpilotpb]

The problem with Radar is that now its nearly perfect it is being used big style by Herrgruppenfurher Brainstorm on the poor motorists of N Wales

[You want it when?]

I must train the boss to act as a WSO and draw off the range gate or prehaps deploy flares out of the family bus next time I'm in Wales then.