Decca Radar From Wikipedia, the free eneyelopedia ‘The Decea Radar company was a British manufacturer of radar systems History ‘The Decca Company, a British gramophone manufacturer that, as Decca Records, released records under the Decea label, contributed the British war effort during the Second World War. This military ‘engineering activity resulted in a number of commercial ventures after the war, in particular the Decea ‘Navigator System, and the Decea Radar company. Decea Radar launched its fist marine radar, the 159, in August 1949. (The radar was named afler the ‘number of the London bus that passed the Brixton laboratory where the radar was designed and ‘manufactured The company produced the first true motion radar(where the ship moves on the radarsereen ‘and the map is static in comparison where the map is moving and the ship is inthe centre of the radar display), the frst anti-colision radar and the first "Type Approved" colour radar. China, as the thitd largest ship builder in the world, most ships it builds are equipped with navigation radars of Decca origin (cither license produced or directly imported), Decca BridgeMaster It tursing units and antennas aboard a BC Ferris vessel in In 1959 Racal Decca, as the company was known then, launched a number of social and sports clubs. Racal Brish Columbia, Canada Decea RFC of Tolworth still operates today, and plays at Kingston University Ground in Tolworth, Surrey. Decca Radar was bought in 1979 by Racal Electronics forming Racal-Decca Marine and related companies. Early Racal-Decca radars had ‘dropped the Decca name, but it was later restored. AL this time the business was run from New Malden in Surrey. In the mid-1980s, Desca introduced the BridgeMaster series of radars, which used a rasterized colour display. The BridgeMaster Il series followed, with a Motorola 68000 ‘CPU and software options like vector traces showing the trajectories of other ships as part of the ARPA package. In December 1996 the US corporation Litton Industries bought Racal-Decca Marine, as well as Sperry Marine and C Plath, under the Litton Marine Systems name. The Decea name, engineering, and design continued to be used on the BridgeMaster I and, in 1998, the BridgeMasterE series of radars was launched. The Sperry section of Litton Marine Systems, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, was already producing its own line of marine radars, the Rasear, at the time of the acquisition but this was replaced by the BridgeMaster E, The Rascar had been the American-made radar used in the American Navy and Coast ‘Guard but eventually the BridgeMaster E made inroads there as well. Competitors atthe time included Gold Stat and Furuno. Northrop Grumman acquired Litton Industries in 2000 and this eventually heralded, in 2004, the end of the use of the Decca name on radars after a period of more than 50 yeats. In 2006 the VisionMaster FT series ‘of marine radars replaced the aging BridgeMaster E series. [A Decca BridgeMastr I splay bein External links * VisionMaster FT marine radar website (https:/aveb archive. org/web/201.20730200629/htp:/swww sperrymarine.northropgrumman.com/Products/Radars VisionMaster_ FT_Radar) = Information about Sperry Marine Northrop Grumman's Decca radat heritage (htips/ecb archive org/wel/201202152 13137 /hip/seww.eperrymarine.northropgramman.com/Producte/Radars) = [1] (hupy/hvww.pitchero.com/elubs/racaldecealxv/) Retrieved from "htps://en. wikipedia.org! w/index.php title-Decea_Radar&oldid=794270570" This page was last edited on 6 August 2017, at 23:54 ‘© Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlie License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Ine., a non-profit organization,