Originally Posted by
radarboy
I'd be interested to know which years those were please?
I'd also like to know when the MPN-11 arrived at Chivenor and when it was finally removed?
I don’t know when the radar was installed at Chivenor but I worked on it from 1972 to 1974.When the station closed and most people moved to Brawdy, I stayed and helped decommission the beast. This involved soaking almost everything on the trailer with WD-40 to loosen moving parts that had not moved in years. There were hundreds of small panels that had to be refitted to cover spaces left by removed equipment. The RN at Yeovilton, or possibly Lee-on Solent had an MPN-11 and we were visited by their radar techs who took a lot of spares away. The US wanted the radar back and in, I think August 1974 we removed it from its turntable, using a Scammell Wrecker truck, which was achieved with more brute force than finesse.