How the Germans failed to Detect Chain Home Radar

[KE5FX]

My understanding was that Churchill allowed the Coventry raid to take place in order to keep the Germans from questioning the integrity of Enigma.  Jones among others has refuted this account, though.  Not sure if a definitive answer has ever emerged.

[brucehoult]

As likely as no one dared tell the powers that be in the war cabinet that Germans weren't stupid people who could be convinced the towers were for early TV, and all that carrot crap, for being able to spot their planes.

The carrot story was not so much about the Home Chain radar stations as about the Mosquito night fighters being equipped with airborne radiolocation devices that could detect and home in on the German bombers.