[Buster_Dee]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

If TD is interested in further development of radar, or wants to get heavily into surface radar, here's more info about the ASB radar on the SBD-5:

"Speaking of new equipment, I remember the first radar we had installed on the SBDs while we were in Newfoundland. This was most primitive by current standards. We had two Yagi antennas mounted under each wing tip. We could rotate these antennas with a mechanical control lever from straight forward to 90 degrees to the port and starboard. The indicator was a cathode ray tube with a vertical baseline up the middle. The baseline was fuzzy on either side, which we called "grass." When the radar beam received a return echo from a ship, or other reflecting surface, a "blip" would appear along the baseline. The further the blip was up the baseline, the further away the ship was. Thus, we could measure the distance to the target along the vertical line. Not very sophisticated, but it worked."

http://www.airgroup4.com/edens.htm

Any cockpit photos? I like my radars.