TYPICAL BBC - CAN'T EVEN BOTHER TO CHECK THE BASICS.
I've just sent the following email to the BBC:
Dear Sir or Madam
Reference your news item today about redundant RAF sites.
Your description of the 20m dishes at Stenigot as 'radar' dishes is completely wrong. The wartime radar transmission antennae were suspended in the form of dipoles from 350ft steel masts, one of which is still standing.
Ever heard of the Chain Home radar system? It only won the Battle of Britain for us - not very important really.
The dishes which you describe as radar are Tropospheric scatter antennae, part of a military communications system installed at the site around 1959. They have absolutely nothing to do with radar.
It's all in Wikipedia - don't your people ever use it?
Yours Truly
The sooner the Tories sort them out the better.