Strange Radar Device Described
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Received Saturday,, 10.55 a.m. LONDON, March 29, / ! One of the strangest radar devices of the war, the markei* buoy, which gave accurate radio locarion bearings to ships and was en.ga.ged in vital undertakings such as landing operations, was described at the radio Iocation convention to-day. 0 It contained an anchor drum, mooring cajble, twelve-f oot telescopic -aerial and radar transmitter, and received an exploisive charge. The buoy, when dropped into the sea, moored itself, erected its aerial, switcbed itseif on and for the next eighteen hcurs it was ready to flas!h out -an automatic radar answer to any vessel wi thin a range of twenty miles. The buoy then blew itself up. The deviee without the explosive may be adapted to peacetime use. . "
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 March 1946, Page 5
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