From: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 23:41:54 +0800
To: Alan Horowitz <alanh@infi.net>
Subject: Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
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On Sat, 27 Jan 1996 19:46:52 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

> There is a story floating around XXXXXX circles that The Japanese carrier
> approaching Pearl was spotted on the recently-installed (Navy) land radar
> in Hawaii. The target was reported out of the ops room, but ignored by the
> same situation room that screwed up (years later) the response to the
> Pueblo's distress calls in international waters just offshore from North
> Korea. 

Color me VERY skeptical.  The Japanese ships were WELL over the
horizon from any point on Oahu.  OTH radars are quite difficult to
build effectively, and radar technology at the end of 1941 was quite
primitive.