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News of an interesting Radar re-creation planned for early 2010 arrived the other day. They'd like to find a flat-nose Morris similar to the one shown below, to take part in the re-creation. Photos and information from Brian Leathley...

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DAVENTRY EXPERIMENT 75th ANNIVERSARY

26th February 2010

BACKGROUND

On the 26th February 1935 a project marked MOST SECRET took place in an unassuming field close to the village of Daventry Northamptonshire.

Robert Watson Watt & Arnold Wilkins used the output from the BBC 49 metre transmitter & received the reflected signal from a RAF Heyford bomber tracking it for some 9 miles. This event is Known as the Daventry Experiment & more recently the birth of RADAR. All remains locally to this event is a memorial stone erected by the villagers of Weedon marking the field in which the receiving vehicle stood.

PAST AMATEUR RADIO INVOLVEMENT

Over the past 3 years the sites of the receiving station at Weedon & the transmitting station have been activated by radio amateurs. The commitment has been such that during

2008 stations with special callsigns issued by OFCOM was operational almost every day during the month of February, GB0WW & GB0RDF. During 2009 GB0WW was operational for many days during February 2009 from Borough Hill, the site of the BBC

Daventry transmitter.

2010 OUTLINE

Part of the plan for 2010 is to re-enact the experiment on the 26th February.

To have the backing of OFCOM for GB75 RADAR

To open the 5XX transmitter hall as a temporary museum of radio & RADAR.

Currently we have the enthusiastic backing of the landowner of the Field at Weedon.

The partial agreement of OFCOM for GB75RADAR.

We have some input from the Weedon "historic society"

Separate enquiries are in with the science museum & the incumbents of the 5XX Daventry site

In order that the building may be used & the original RADAR receiver may be made available to us.

Enquiries have been made with Giles G0NXA with regard to the aeronautical legalities

there seems to be no be no problem with the flight.

Currently we need a flat nose Morris van circa 1928 with an Eccles ambulance body, preferably the original reg. KX50.

Kind Regards

Brian Leathley - Andrew
http://www.andrewphotographic.co.uk/g8gmu2.htm
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