Recent editions of the DEHS quarterly newsletter Transmission Lines (TL) have included feature articles, as listed below. From the December 2012 edition, these are also available to members in electronic/PDF format.
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2016 | ||
| Edition | Volume Number | Feature Articles |
| Dec | 21/4 | • Autumn Symposium 2016
• The Parabolic Antenna and the Emergence of Radar • Defence Electronics History: One Man’s View from 1958 Pt 2 • Clock Synchronisation – Pt 1 |
| Sept | 21/3 | DEHS Best Presentation Award 2016: Maj Alvin Yap
• Defence Electronics History: One Man’s View from 1958 – Pt 1 • Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Pt 7 • Marconi Interwar Commercial Receivers Marconi Pamphlet 230/3 Part 2 – Marconi Magnetic Drum Recording Equipment |
| Jun | 21/2 | The Daventry Experiment as a Bistatic Radar
• Burns Lecture 2016: Dr Graham Farmelo on “Churchill’s Bomb” • Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Part 6 • Marconi Interwar Commercial Receivers Marconi Pamphlet 230/3 Part 1 – Commercial Marconi Service Receiver TYPER.C.6c. |
| Mar | 21/1 | Signalling at the Battle of Passchendaele, July to November, 1917
• 1939 GEC visit by Megaw to Gutton et. al. in France via Sqn Ldr Mike Dean • Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Pt 5 |
2015 | ||
| Edition | Volume Number | Feature Articles |
| Dec | 20/4 | 2015 Autumn Symposium
• Coast Defence Radar • Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Pt 4 |
| Sept | 20/3 | 2015 MESE Course Presentations Award
• The AN/APR-4 ECM Receiver • Obituary: Owen Hosmer Davie • Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas Part 3 |
| June | 20/2 | 2015 Burns Lecture and Exhibition
• 2015 Burns Lecture Living in the Network: 100 years of Sigint • The Training of Linguists for War, Coulsden, 1952-4 – Pt 2 • 2015 Summer Visit • EWB Gill – Taking Wireless to War • Kelvedon Hatch – Pt 2 – Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Pt 2 |
| March | 20/1 | Bletchley Park and the Hut 3 Headline Reports
• The Training of Linguists for War, Coulsden – Pt 1 • Marconi Radio Equipment 1918-1920s – Pt 5/Conclusion • Letters to the Editor: Castles in the Sky: A World First pioneered by Baird Television • Kelvedon Hatch – Pt 1• Through Radar to J-Beam Antennas – Pt 1 • Obituary: Commander Senior Grade Oyvind Garvik |
2014 | ||
| Edition | Volume Number | Feature Articles |
| December | 19/4 | German cable telegraphy in World War 1: Yap Island
• Marconi Radio Equipment 1918-1920s – Pt 4 • Wireless in the Trenches in World War 1 – The tale of BJF Schonland OBE (mil.), a colonial wireless officer • JRR Tolkien, World War 1 Signals Officer • Letters to the Editor: Early radio memories; Skip Wilkins’ Calculations • Obituary: Philip Cox DSC QC |
| September | 19/3 | MESE28 – DEHS Award winner
• When Vera met Thumper Arrival of the Canadian Lancaster at RAF Coningsby • Marconi Radio Equipment 1918 – 1920s – Pt 3 • Chain Home, the Goniometer and all that: Watson-Watt’s‘Greatest Mistake’? • The Cossor Instrument Landing System Receiver – Project History |
| June | 19/2 | Burns Lecture & Equipment Exhibition
• Marconi Radio Equipment 1918 – 1920s – Pt 2 • The UK’s first Ballistic missile early warning system • Tale of a TUBA |
| March | 19/1 | Marconi Radio Equipment 1918 to the 1920s – Pt 1
• Richborough – The Mystery Port, 1916 |
2013 | ||
| Edition | Volume Number | Feature Articles |
| Dec | 18/4 | A Brief Look at Early Military Satcom up to the 1980s
• Radar Development in the Netherlands – Pt 9 – Delft • Magnetic Mines and Other’Funnies’ in WWII |
| Sept | 18/3 | Batteries for Bowman
• MESAR from “Decca Legacy” • Radar Development in the Netherlands 1980 – 2004, Chapter 8, 8.2.3 to end • “Of Cans, Globs and the Beat” – a Radiosonde Experience |
| June | 18/2 | Electricity ForMilitary Use Before World War 1
• Radar Development in The Netherlands, Chapter 8 up to 8.2.3 • The Origins of the Decca Navigator System • The October 1942 Capture of Early German Naval M4 Enigma |
| March | 18/1 | The Decca Legacy: The Introduction of Digital and Software Processing into Radar System Design
• A Submerged Signal Ejector Control System: An early microcomputer application in RN submarines • Radar Development in The Netherlands, 1980-2004 • Rockets Galore – Britain’santi-aircraft rocket batteries as used operationally in WW2 • When Radar was RDF – A document found among the papers of Capt P H E Welby-Everard OBE DSC DLRN • The Origin of Omega – Letter to the Editor from Walter Blanchard • Mushroom – Kept in the Dark for 72 Years |