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Chain Home Low

Chain Home Low, or AMES Type 2, was developed to improve the original Chain Home System. Chain Home could not detect aircraft flying below 3000 feet, but Chain Home Low was capable of detecting aircraft flying as low as 500 feet. Chain Home Low also had a much smaller wavelength than Chain Home at just 1.5 meters. This allowed Chain Home Low to have a much smaller margin of error in detection. This also allowed the equipment to be physically smaller than the Chain Home equipment, which meant that it could be mounted on a special platform that rotated, increasing Chain Home Low’s detection range laterally.

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