Great coincidence, I grew up with hearing my dad talk about such things, being called into the Pentagon to speculate on the capabilities of some radar based on the signals alone, especially after he retired and I started working as an engineer myself. Some of the crazy cold war stories about the Soviets he probably shouldn’t have been telling me were really interesting.
We also made Radar targets, basically transmitters on pallets they would drop out in the woods on Eglin and then the F-16’s and others would target them and blow them up............