The Secrets of Radar Museum
@secretsofradar.bsky.social
We share the secret history of Canadians on radar during #WWii and #coldwar, as well as weather radar! Our collection spans 1920s-present. #rcaf Located in London, Ontario, we're open Thurs-Sat, 10am-4pm. Secretsofradar.com
It's not too late to help defray our former curator's costs! She'll be giving a talk for us about the experience sometime in the summer. Congratulations @mambolica.bsky.social !
I was accepted to the Canadian Battlefields Foundation study tour, which is an amazing opportunity. It's mostly covered by a bursary, but I made a GoFundMe to defray the $1250 I need to pay. The GFM has been a success, so now anything else supports other related costs/supplies. gofund.me/e5162231
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April 10, 2024 at 4:56 PM
It's not too late to help defray our former curator's costs! She'll be giving a talk for us about the experience sometime in the summer. Congratulations @mambolica.bsky.social !
We're also into art that references radio-astronomy. We're intersectional like that.
She inspired the sciences but also the arts. What an icon.
April 10, 2024 at 4:53 PM
We're also into art that references radio-astronomy. We're intersectional like that.
Have we mentioned we're kinda into radio-astronomy, too? Happy Katie Bouman Day. May we all be as happy today as Katie was in this moment. #radiowaves #radar #history
On 4/10/19, NASA released the first direct image of a black hole. It was SPECTACULAR, but so is this photo of team member Katie Bouman, taken when she first saw the black hole image (she wrote the algorithm for stitching together data from radio telescope observations) 🧪🔭 girlgeek.io/katherine-l-...
April 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Have we mentioned we're kinda into radio-astronomy, too? Happy Katie Bouman Day. May we all be as happy today as Katie was in this moment. #radiowaves #radar #history
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Oh yeah, by then there will be way more stuff coming through! Things to watch for include raptors (day migrants) dropping down to roost, while songbirds (night migrants) may take off during totality. Cornell has birders set to make a set series of observations before, during, and after the eclipse.
March 12, 2024 at 5:36 AM
Oh yeah, by then there will be way more stuff coming through! Things to watch for include raptors (day migrants) dropping down to roost, while songbirds (night migrants) may take off during totality. Cornell has birders set to make a set series of observations before, during, and after the eclipse.
This thing is still dang cool.
March 12, 2024 at 4:37 PM
This thing is still dang cool.
It's that time of year! Did you know migrating birds (and insects) get picked up on radar? In Canada, we've been studying migratory bird flight patterns with radar since the 1950s.
Avians! Start. Your. Enginessss!!
Please note that lovely blob on the Tex-Mex border as some of the early neotropical migrants taking the land route are popping in.
#birds #birding #spring #migration
Please note that lovely blob on the Tex-Mex border as some of the early neotropical migrants taking the land route are popping in.
#birds #birding #spring #migration
March 12, 2024 at 4:35 PM
It's that time of year! Did you know migrating birds (and insects) get picked up on radar? In Canada, we've been studying migratory bird flight patterns with radar since the 1950s.
February 19, 2024 at 4:32 PM
We Remember Them.
November 11, 2023 at 4:22 PM
We Remember Them.
We Remember Them.
November 11, 2023 at 4:20 PM
We Remember Them.
We know it!
Thanks for visiting us today!
Thanks for visiting us today!
Beautiful morning at @secretsofradar.bsky.social.
Worth a detour.
Worth a detour.
November 1, 2023 at 3:03 AM
We know it!
Thanks for visiting us today!
Thanks for visiting us today!
We've had this radar unit for almost a decade, and only tonight, after someone prematurely turned out the lights, did we discover its auxiliary radar scope has a phosphor glow! Should we do a video about phosphor? Let us know!
#radar #glowinthedark #phosphorescence #avionics #wwii #howcoolisthat
#radar #glowinthedark #phosphorescence #avionics #wwii #howcoolisthat
September 23, 2023 at 1:53 AM
We've had this radar unit for almost a decade, and only tonight, after someone prematurely turned out the lights, did we discover its auxiliary radar scope has a phosphor glow! Should we do a video about phosphor? Let us know!
#radar #glowinthedark #phosphorescence #avionics #wwii #howcoolisthat
#radar #glowinthedark #phosphorescence #avionics #wwii #howcoolisthat
It's Airshow London (Ontario) weekend. Every year, we try to persuade the Snowbirds (or other visiting air crew) to come visit us, but we haven't prevailed, yet. We're just not on their radar.
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September 10, 2023 at 3:09 PM
It's Airshow London (Ontario) weekend. Every year, we try to persuade the Snowbirds (or other visiting air crew) to come visit us, but we haven't prevailed, yet. We're just not on their radar.
*drum fill*
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You can learn more about us in several places, secretsofradar.com, for instance, and Facebook is also a good place to find us. We're more likely to update our FB than our website, tbh.
The Secrets of Radar Museum
The Secrets of Radar Museum is dedicated to preserving the experiences,
stories and histories of the men and women who helped build, develop,
operate, maintain and defend Canadian RADAR, here in Can...
secretsofradar.com
September 3, 2023 at 3:36 AM
You can learn more about us in several places, secretsofradar.com, for instance, and Facebook is also a good place to find us. We're more likely to update our FB than our website, tbh.
Oh, hi there! We're the coolest little museum you've never visited and we're happy to be on Bluesky! We are in London, ON, but we were founded by veterans to tell a huge, international story about secrecy and co-operation by the Canadians with the British and Americans during the Second World War.
September 3, 2023 at 2:42 AM
Oh, hi there! We're the coolest little museum you've never visited and we're happy to be on Bluesky! We are in London, ON, but we were founded by veterans to tell a huge, international story about secrecy and co-operation by the Canadians with the British and Americans during the Second World War.