Bletchley Park - A Celebration of Radio Communications

Second World War Heritage Site, Bletchley Park will be celebrating the essential contribution of radio to the war effort and it’s subsequent significance at the family ‘Wireless Waves’ event on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August.

From http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/579472

The Park will be abuzz with radio communications as various radio societies and other groups demonstrate a range of equipment from World War Two onwards, including the Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society, Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society, Bletchley Park Radio Society and a World War Two replica German field radio station.

Experts will be giving lectures throughout the day and the Enigma Cinema will be showing documentary films on how communications changed the world. Also look out for the wartime plotting table, re-enactors picnicking around the site and the Model Boat Club on the lake.

Today the airways are filled with wireless internet and mobile phone signals but there was a time when radio signals ruled the airways and were the only way to get a message from A to B quickly.

During the war, radio was the only means of communication available, from getting vital information to front line troops, to secret messages sent by our spies back home but the problem with radio signals was that they could be intercepted. This is why the Germans sent encoded messages on the famous Enigma and Lorenz machines, which they thought to be unbreakable. However both these machines where famously broken by the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.

Gates open at 10.30am and the event ends at 5.00pm. Normal admission prices apply.

Bletchley Park
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