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.

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

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.

You're welcome!

Historically, the National Research Council did bird migration research, but I don't think they have a public facing page about it.

That is not a question I can answer any better than you. I believe FLAP does, but I think they may pull data from various sites. flap.org/bird-migrati...

Mostly, we started because migrating birds get in the way of other things, like air defence and commercial travel, but then the research was made available for natural science and ornithology, too.

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.

An experimental table-top radar unit that looks like a pair of aluminum cans hooked up to a circuit board. The cans read: Stein Radar Demonstration Exhibit.

Check out our rad new radar demonstration unit!

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Sorry, we can't even use the threat of taxidermy. We're not that kind of Museum!

We Remember Them.

RCAF radar personnel casually posed on the front steps of a mess or recreation building at a wwii radar base on the West Coast of Canada. Theyre smiling, many are partially out of uniform, some hold pool cues. One man holds a dog. C.1943

We Remember Them.

We know it!

Thanks for visiting us today!

A flat green circle glows within a black circular frame. Everything but the phosphor circle is deep in shadow.

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

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*

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.

What if we're a museum? Can we still answer? If we had a magical new space, we would have ample, changeable display space, an accessible archival and storage space with multiple working areas suitable for seated and standing, an a space that could be adapted for programming and community use.

A close-up photo of airborne radar equipment, an H2X set, that is comprised of black-painted metal boxes covered with switches and knobs. In the centre is a bright orange circular cathode ray tube radar screen, to the left is an auxiliary, white cathode ray tube screen. Several braided aluminum cables are attached. The unit isn't very big, and sits on a table top. It once was installed in a Lancaster Bomber Mk 10, or perhaps a B-29 Superfortress, and was used for area bombing.

Yes, we do have actual radar equipment, and other neat stuff, and no, we don't turn it on. Look, do you want congealed eyeballs? No, we didn't think so.

Anyway, behold! Radar!

We probably won't post too often, because we're volunteer run and it takes time away from doing other stuff, like working in our archive, looking after our displays, trying to find the tape measure--no, the soft one-- and wondering what that weird electric doodad is and where did it come from?!

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.