I recall an article I read years ago about the old RADAR tubes and 
phosphors used. There was a RADAR scope tube that had a mix of two 
phosphors. One phosphor produced a short persistence bright blue light from 
the target and the other was the longer persistence P12 type orange 
phosphor that was excited by the blue phosphor hung around after the blue 
faded and was refreshed by another "ping" of blue light from the target. An 
orange filter was placed in front of the tube face to filter out the blue 
flash which would have been very distracting to the operator.

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 7:28:40 PM UTC-5, charles wrote:
>
> On 2020-02-10 11:05 a.m., Nicholas Stock wrote: 
> > Other tubes with P12 phosphor are 3JP12’s as far as I can tell. Some of 
> the datasheets for others say they were available as P12, but I rarely find 
> them for sale anywhere.... 
>
> the description from JEDEC says P12 was intended for radar. see attched) 
>
> some REGISTERED at P12 include 5CP12,5AJP12,7LP12,16AFP12, 7AGP12, 
> 3ACP12A, 19Wp12, 3BMP12, 17QCP12, 12AWP12, 5EKP12, 19DXP12. 
>
> the larger sizes are consistent with Radar use. 
>
> Sylvania or Dumont in Particular advertised that they would build ANY 
> CRT with any available phosphor given a suitable sized order, so 
> presumably any scope tube could have existed as a P12 - (or P7) version. 
>
> -- 
> Charles MacDonald  VA3CPY               Stittsville Ontario 
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