Artists impression of the Daventry Experiment

BBC TV to cover Amateur Radio radar commemorations

Friday February 26 is the 75th anniversary of the Daventry Radar experiment.

BBC TV will be reporting on some of the Amateur Radio special event stations commemorating the event.
The anniversary is being marked by a trio of special event stations:

GB75RDF - Daventry - http://www.andrewphotographic.co.uk/g8gmu9a.htm
GB75BRS - Bawdsey - http://www.bawdseyresearchstation.org.uk/
GB75CH - Great Baddow - Chain Home Mast - http://www.chainhome.org.uk/

Two BBC camera teams are expected to be in use. One at Bawdsey Manor will cover the planned contact at 11:00 between all three stations and a second will be at Daventry for the lunchtime fly past and radar re-enactment.

The Daventry Experiment took place on Tuesday, February 26, 1935. A Handley Page Heyford bomber (K6902) was flown over the site and Robert Watson-Watt and his assistant Arnold Wilkins tuned their radio receiver to the frequency of the BBC transmitter at Daventry and measured the signal being reflected from the aircraft.

A re-enactment of the experiment will take place on Friday and further details can be found at
http://www.andrewphotographic.co.uk/g8gmu9b.htm

BBC Midlands TV can be seen on Sky Channel 980
BBC East TV can be seen on Sky Channel 981

The Great Baddow Chain Home Mast
http://www.greatbaddowparishcouncil.co.uk/
Great%20Baddow%20Mast.pdf

The Chain Home radar system
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/ch/chainhome.htm

The Daventry Experiment.
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/oral/scanlan/chr/scanlan1.htm