User:Anakkechil/sandbox

In 1969 I joined a team of Decca Survey Engineers on a project based in Subang West Java. The object of the exercise was to set up a system of navigation for aeroplanes to spray the rice crop. The aim was to eliminate a local moth whose eggs were destroying the crops. The operation was run by Decca Survey at New Malden in Surrey - a gentleman by the name of Len Bridger managed our team. I was recruited by Decca Orient in Singapore. Initially short chains were set up to cover one or two rice paddies - some of these were over 5Km across. Later we installed long chains where the master and slaves were more or less permanent installations and covered 50 or 60 KM.. I lived, with many other UK based engineers, in a house named Bulan Dagoan. Indonesia, at the time, was a poor country with a great deal of military setting up road blocks - each demanding a bribe to let us pass. I was able to speak the local dialect so had a good relationship will all of the locals. Overall we managed, with some, very able and brave pilots, to increase the rice crop way beyond the estimates of the WHO. So I think the team there did a great job.