{"id":1971,"date":"2010-04-02T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2010-04-02T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:00:30","slug":"wwii-radar-in-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wwii-radar-in-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII radar in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20100212\/letters\/radar-stations-during-wartime-malta\">Radar stations during wartime Malta<\/a>, by Charles Debono, curator of the National War Museum in Valletta.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; as radar technology was in its infancy, in Malta, the British authorities decided to build an early-warning system, the Parabolic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/locations\/il-widna-malta\/\">Acoustic Mirror known as Il-Widna (ear)<\/a>, constructed at Ta&#8217; San Pietru, Maghtab.<\/p>\n<p>Il-Widna became outdated when the British government decided to install the first RDF [Radio Directing Finding] in Malta. It is important to say that this was to be the first RDF installed outside the UK.<\/p>\n<p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/20100212\/letters\/radar-stations-during-wartime-malta\">More<\/a> at the Times of Malta website<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radar stations during wartime Malta, by Charles Debono, curator of the National War Museum in Valletta. &#8230; as radar technology was in its infancy, in Malta, the British authorities decided to build an early-warning system, the Parabolic Acoustic Mirror known as Il-Widna (ear), constructed at Ta&#8217; San Pietru, Maghtab. Il-Widna became outdated when the British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-links","category-sound-mirrors","tag-malta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}