AMES Type 8 - PPI or not?

Maury Markowitz

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I'm reading over the little material I have on the AMES Type 8, and I'm coming to conflicting conclusions...

Much of the material discusses the Type 8 as a precursor to the Type 7, and there's considerable discussion of the PPI. This suggests that the Type 8 had a PPI.

But at the same time I have a description of how the Type 8 antennas were directed to an angle using a ship-telegraph-like system. This suggests that it was a line-of-shoot system.

Of course it also appears that Type 8 stations had two antennas, so perhaps one scanned and the other pinpointed?

Does anyone have a reference that clears this up?
 

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