'Military Radio Communication, Radar & Navigation Equipment - Restored and Working'

Cambridge Wireless Heritage SIG is running a visit to the Duxford Radio Society at the Imperial War Museum Duxford. It will will incorporate a fascinating insight into military communication, radar and navigation used during warfare, with live demonstrations of equipment restored by members of the Society. There are a handful of places available which are being offered to non-members (it’s a small group so they will run a waiting list if it is over-subscribed). Details are as follows:

The equipment on display covers examples of the following categories of military communication:

• Radio communication in land warfare, airborne combat and naval warfare between 1914 and 2010
• Airborne radio navigation between 1941 and 1970
• Airborne radar used in WW2 and the early cold war
• Clandestine communications between 1942 and 1970

The visit will consist of demonstrations and explanations of the various equipment DRS has conserved and restored, including:

• a working Gee System Teaching Set Type 30 Navigator ground training station
• a working 'Command' Radio System from USA B17 and B24 aircraft, and
• (hopefully) a working war-time H2S radar system being driven by modern digital processors (H2S was the WW2 3cm radar carried by the heavy bombers to give them a PPI display of the terrain under the aircraft, as an aid to navigation and target identification.)

Date: Friday 21 October

Time: 13.30 to approx 16.00

Venue: Duxford Radio Society at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridge CB22 4QR. The Duxford Radio Society exhibition and display areas are located in Duxford Buildings 177 and 178 which are positioned between Hangar 5 and the American Air Museum (see Duxford site map). Please note it is an approximately 10 minute walk from the main entrance to the DRS buildings.

Further details can be seen on the event webpage at CW Duxford Radio Society visit.

Attendees will need to pay to get into IWM Duxford (unless they are Friends of Duxford) i.e. entry to the museum is not included. Otherwise the visit is free but delegates are asked to make a voluntary cash donation to our hosts so that the DRS can carry on its great work.

Limited places. Registration essential. To register, follow the ‘Register Interest’ link on the event webpage (CW Duxford Radio Society visit).

Contact Stirling Essex (stirling.essex@espansivo.com) of Cambridge Wireless Heritage SIG with any queries.

This event is organised by the Cambridge Wireless Heritage SIG in conjunction with Duxford Radio Society.