{"id":42130,"date":"2020-02-28T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42130"},"modified":"2020-02-22T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T12:30:43","slug":"the-birth-of-radar-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-birth-of-radar-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Radar Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Amanda Slater<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post<\/em>\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Paul Evans<\/a>, who writes:<\/p>\n

Interesting article on the new monument to radar between Daventry and Towcester in Northamptonshire, UK.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/birth-of-radar-memorial<\/a><\/p>\n

Legend has it that this was conducted around 25-28 MHz, which was the very top end of higher power RF at the time.<\/p>\n

The location sits closer to Towcester, although the event is always quoted as having taken place at Daventry (the source, not the receiver).<\/p>\n

It’s fascinating that Plessey Research Caswell was set up almost immediately, not very far away and was heavily involved in radar and other solid-state research through to the 1990s.<\/p>\n

[Disclosure: the author (Paul) worked at Plessey Caswell and was Two Terminal device Manager at Plessey Microwave, Towcester in the 1980s]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many thanks, Paul, for sharing this fascinating bit of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor,\u00a0Paul Evans, who writes: Interesting article on the new monument to radar between Daventry and Towcester in Northamptonshire, UK. https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/birth-of-radar-memorial Legend has it that this was conducted around 25-28 MHz, which was the very top end of higher power RF at the time. The location sits closer to Towcester, although the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288],"tags":[7864,4688,4091,676,1301],"class_list":["post-42130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","tag-paul-evans-w4-vp9kf","tag-radar","tag-radio-history","tag-wwii","tag-wwii-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aXw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16926,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/historic-bawdsey-radar-site-receives-1-4-million-grant-from-the-uk-government\/","url_meta":{"origin":42130,"position":0},"title":"Historic Bawdsey Radar site receives \u00a31.4 million grant from the UK government","author":"Thomas","date":"January 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, for sharing this article about the historic Bawdsey Radar site: (Source: Engaget) A radar site considered by some to be as historically important as Bletchley Park will be preserved, thanks to a \u00a31.4 million ($2 million) grant from the UK government. 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