Marker Buoy One Of War's Strangest Secrets
(Rec. noon) LONDON. Mar. 29. Cne of the strangest radar devices of the war was a marker buoy which gave accurate radio location bearings tc ships engaged in vital operations such as landing operations. It was described at the radio location convention today.
The buoy contained an anchor, drum, mooring cable and a 12ft telescopic aerial radar transmitter, and received an explosive charge. The buoy, when dropped into the sea. moored itself, erected its aerial, switched itself on to it. for the next 18 hours, ready to flash out an automatic radar answer to any vessel within a range of 20 miles. The buoy then blew itself ud. The device, without an explosive, may be adapted to peacetime use.
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Northern Advocate, 30 March 1946, Page 5
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