How did the Brits do it?

David Lesher wrote in message ...

nt (Krztalizer) writes:

They built "Rotterdam" / H2S duplicates as well.

H2S was forbidden over land for quite a while. It was vital to the
Uboat campaign and the boffins figured that if used over Germany,
one *would* be captured and the secret blown. [There was no way to
destroy the magnatron w/o taking out the aircraft as well....]

They were right.


If it was that vital they would not have used it. The people who
'defined' vital were trying to bomb Germany. Oddly enough it was
Bomber Harris who appreciated that bombing U-Boat yards and basses was
a complete waste of effort.

The Germans were scammed into thinking their Metox boxes were leaking
radiation which were being used to track them. It was a technical
possibility and so they bought into it. That delayed the development
of a H2S detector (Naxos).

Ganton Pretz wrote:

If it was that vital they would not have used it. The people who
'defined' vital were trying to bomb Germany. Oddly enough it was
Bomber Harris who appreciated that bombing U-Boat yards and basses was
a complete waste of effort.

The Germans were scammed into thinking their Metox boxes were leaking
radiation which were being used to track them. It was a technical
possibility and so they bought into it. That delayed the development
of a H2S detector (Naxos).

What did "H2S" stand for, anyway. (Sounds like dihydrogen sulphide to
me.) Sorry if it has already been posted, I missed that part of the
thread.
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Ganton Pretz wrote:

If it was that vital they would not have used it. The people who
'defined' vital were trying to bomb Germany. Oddly enough it was
Bomber Harris who appreciated that bombing U-Boat yards and basses was
a complete waste of effort.

The Germans were scammed into thinking their Metox boxes were leaking
radiation which were being used to track them. It was a technical
possibility and so they bought into it. That delayed the development
of a H2S detector (Naxos).

What did "H2S" stand for, anyway. (Sounds like dihydrogen sulphide to
me.) Sorry if it has already been posted, I missed that part of the
thread.

There are at least versions of the story about the naming of the radar

1) Its original name was "Home Sweet Home" which was shortened
to H2S

2) Its original name was TF (for Town Finder) but a different
code name was required and an RAF type suggested
'H2S because it stinks'


Keith