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Vast and Rotor

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Introduction

Taken from postings to MOGS

 

OK, nostalgia corner!
In 2000 I toured the Shetlands Islands on an Amateur Radio Trip.
While there I was invited onto the Radar Station on Unst, now mothballed.
That brought memories of all the sites I worked on with Field Services.
Does any one remember the station codes, AVO, BWP etc?
Who were the Engineers who's intitials started it?
 Don Ward

 

Mott, Hay and Anderson - a firm of consulting engineers - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mott,_Hay_and_Anderson

See also https://www.subbrit.org.uk/features/rotor-radar-system/
All the Rotor site codes can be obtained by incrementing the letters
alphabetically.

Ian Gillis
Who was stationed at site EZS

 

Input from Malcolm Mack -RAF Orby (ROTOR site) in Lincolnshire was used as a recruitment gathering point for Field Services personnel working on ROTOR/VAST in the early 1950s (1952).

 

List 1

The codes started with MHA which is the abbreviation for Mott Hay and Anderson who were the building architects.

Roy Simons

The sequence then runs

MHA Barton Quarry
NIB Portland
OJC Ventnor
PKD Bawdsey
QLE Trimingham
RMF Bempton
SNG Truleigh Hill
TOH Hopton
UPI Skendelby
VQJ Patrington
WRK Bawburgh
XSL Brentwood (Kelvedon Hatch)
YTM Sandwich
ZUN Wartling
AVO Sopley
BWP Neatishead
CXQ ?
DYR Seaton Snook
EZS Boulmer
FAT Anstruther
GBU Buchan
HCV Crosslaw
IDW Cold Helsdon
JEX Goldsborough
KFY Shipton
LGB Inverbervie

There are the R4's at WW2 Box and LOA Longley Lane

 

List 2

The following sites did not follow the original sequencing

Roy Simons

AGC St.Margarets Bay
AXA Saxa Vord
CAL Sylloth
CHA Charmy Down
COB Comberton
DBW Killard Point
ECK Kilchiran
FLY Tiree
FUL Gailes
GWB Fairlight
HAK Hack Green
HAM Chenies
HAT Hartland Point
HEB Beachy Head
HOP Hope Cove
IKA Wick
LAT Langtoft
RAI Durness
SYP Prestatyn
SAN St. Annes
TEL Treleaver
TES Trerewan Sands
TWY St. Twynells
URB Ballycastle
WIV Tinsgamy
ZEM Minehead
??? Foreness

Some of the later sites may not have been given a code

 

 

There was also WSD, Staxton Wold, which was a later site.
Owen Hawkes

 

An even later site is KRW Linesman at West Drayton

Roy Simons

 

CAL Sylloth from your alphabetical list should be spelt Silloth, so my wife tells me and she comes from Carlisle.
A D Stevens

 

 

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