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
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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).
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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
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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
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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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