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Originally Posted by 5./JG27.Farber
Very interesting, was there not also high chain home and low chain home for high and low altitudes? Have you found this can be implemented?
So to make it work we need 4Tx Radar 1 and 4Rx radar 2 with the same orientation. When you spawn in a radar tower I assume its orientation is 0. Its pointing longways up and down. So to change it to detect East we just spin it 90. I thought they detected from their widest part not from the side? Do they have to be linked in anyway or need any other special requirements? Is the orientation the direction they will detect?
Could Wotan be used to detect ships, Im sure I have read this somewhere? Or am I confusing this with late war German radar, something I know nothing about.
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Chain Hom Low or CHL was indeed there as a gap filler. CHL was developed from an Army experiment to detect shipping (similar I guess to Freya). In the end CHL was well established by late 1940. It consisted of a conventional (in todays terms) rotating aerial spinning at around 5RPM. So CHL provided Omni directional coverage over short ranges. Though inland coverage was affected by ground clutter. Unlike CH, CHL had a PPI and a separate range scale. As far as I can make out CHL did not have a height finding capability.
Off to see if CHL is a 3D object in COD.
A great reference/read on British radar is the book "RADAR a wartime Miracle"
http://www.amazon.com/Radar-Wartime-.../dp/0750916435