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The Kettering Group

Scarborough, UK  
2012 Feb 8, UTC  
Wednesday, day 39  
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Kettering Group Equipment in Detail:












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Contemporary 1966 film of the tracking equipment

Racal RA-217 Receiver

The receiver was presented to the Group jointly by the Daily Express newspaper and Racal itself in 1967 in recognition of the efforts to date and as an improvement on the equipment already used for tracking.

The brochure that appears here was provided by Dick Flagg. It is a four-page .pdf file and is 2.3MB in size so it may take some time to load.

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