Oral History of Defence Electronics

In 1942 Cooke-Yarborough rejoined the TRE team, which by then had moved to Malvern. He was reassigned to the Radio Counter Measures Team (RCM), working for Martin Ryle. Cooke-Yarborough then spent the next two years trying to develop equipment which would receive, mark and deceive the enemy radar signals. The RCM followed a process: meeting with the RAF chiefs; deciding what they needed from the research unit; preparing a design brief; and then assessing how the design brief could be made practical. This would lead to the output which was a functioning device or piece of equipement:

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