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19th June 2018, 21:51
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British ground-based radars, 1942
I've come across the abbreviation M.R.U. in the context of radar performance in Egypt in 1942. Also "M.R.U. Types 4 and 9 stations".
I'm familiar with M.O.R.U. (Mobile Operations Room Unit) but this seems to be something different — Mobile Radar Unit perhaps, or does somebody know the correct interpretation? 
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19th June 2018, 22:02
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19th June 2018, 22:40
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
Nick, you say it appears 'in context of radar performance': does the Mobile Radio Unit name fit?
One of the tasks sometimes given to MRUs was to listen for enemy radar transmissions to identify type/location. There was nothing to transcribe, it was the detecting the transmitting device that was the object. Bruce
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19th June 2018, 22:54
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Thanks for the answers Bruce and RSwank.
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20th June 2018, 02:41
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
 https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Nomads-P.../dp/1612002889 This book may be of interest to some looking to know more about the subject
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20th June 2018, 08:59
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
Thanks Orwell, I’d never come across that one before.
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20th June 2018, 10:29
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
And thanks from me too. In the past I read 'MRU' in North Africa as being a Mobile Radio Unit and now can see I have to revisit those documents and think again.
Bruce
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20th June 2018, 11:24
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
Point of interest, Arthur "Captain Mainwaring" Lowe served as a radar technician with REME in the Middle East.
...Connection?
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20th June 2018, 22:46
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
British ground-based radars that were mobile. I had not run across this before.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205210707
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20th June 2018, 22:52
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Re: British ground-based radars, 1942
I have no excuse for not knowing about them because I was aware of
Mobile Radar Control Posts (MRCP) and should have realised there must have been a corresponding set of radar devices and units to operate them. Duh. Bruce
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