Bawdsey Radar Group Update

Bawdsey’s Radar History to be Recorded

Thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant of £47,900 the memories of people who were part of the development and use of radar at Bawdsey will be made available to future generations. The reminiscences of people involved with radar at Bawdsey from the late 1930s to the 1960s will be captured in video and audio formats and stored in the Suffolk and Essex Record Office archives and at The National Archive at Kew. Some of the records will also be accessible from this website. Suitable materials will be used to produce a school resource pack to enthuse and inform schoolchildren of the vital work which took place at Bawdsey. This oral history project, which has the title ‘Shout and Whisper’, to represent radar’s huge electronic transmission and the reception of the minute signal reflected from the aircraft, is linked to the longer term project to restore the Transmitter Block at Bawdsey.

Visitor Attraction – Sunday 18th September 2005

Peter Walker of the VMARS (Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society) is bringing a 1943 Bedford 3 ton truck, model QLR, to the Transmitter Block on Sunday 18th September 2005. The intention is to establish a Bawdsey-Arnhem radio link. This type of truck is set up as a mobile training room showing how Morse code, radio operating and procedure and telephone exchange operating were taught in the Royal Signals. Visitors, including children, are very welcome inside the truck.

Magic Ear Exhibition

The Magic Ear Exhibition is proving to be a great success with over 100 visitors on Sunday 7th August 2005. The exhibition will continue to be open every Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday from 12.00 to 16.00 until Sunday 18th September 2005

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