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Old 25th Mar 2020, 2:19 pm   #2
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Default Re: Wurzburg Radar

Fascinating is the word for it.

It was a technically-interesting period for the allies as well. It got progressively harder to make much RF energy as you went up through VHF and into UHF, then we had silly amounts of power available at appreciably higher frequencies where the cavity magnetron came into play. The Axis people didn't know of the magnetron but did know of the increasing difficulty with frequency and assumed there was nothing beyond UHF.

So even though we had huge powers available at SHF, we had the same trouble making high power at VHF/UHF that the Germans did.

This hole in capabilities took a long time to fill-in.

The Nullodes are fascinating.

Does the forum need to include nullode ahead of 'diode' in the how many posts indicator?

David
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