RADIO LOCATION (RDF) PART 4 : types of echo [Main Title]

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  • Title: RADIO LOCATION (RDF) PART 4 : types of echo [Main Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 2553
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  • Summary: Fourth in a series of radio location training films.
  • Description: Mainly concerned with the diagrammatic representation of echoes as an aid to identification. Differences between 'battleship' and 'destroyer' echoes. Friendly planes' signal on screen. Cloud echoes. IFF distress signal for aircraft.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ADM 2553
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) B T-H Research Laboratory (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: equipment, British naval - surveillance: RDF (object name) training, British naval - specialist: radio location (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1469 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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    ADM 2553

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