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Description
Mr. Barrie speaks about the sensitivity of radar in relation to the signal detected from radar beacons.
Transcription
Because of the sensitivity of the radar receiver, it could pick up signals from radio beacons … radar beacons and in some, in particular, I refer to the Indian Ocean. Aircraft could be miles and miles and miles away from home and if they didn’t have some sure way of getting home, we could have lost all kinds of them. So there were beacons established at airdromes so that an aircraft as far away … I personally saw 200 miles of the range of a radar beacon. And the crew were pretty happy to know the distance they had to go, the amount of fuel they had left, they were going to make it. ‘Cause if you make a mistake and you miss an airport or an island way out in the Indian Ocean, it’s good-bye and we were very fortunate. But this was an important aspect, not the main aspect of radar, but very important.