Civilian Buyer of RAF Neatishead Wants To Get Type 84 Radar Working
Might be a job opportunity for any retired ground radar techs living in the area - possibly former fighter contoller / ABM as well !
This story made it onto TV in the USA. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ar-system.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7ba...r-to-find-ufos |
I understand he wants to hunt for Spaceships, UFOs and the like.
Best wishes, FB |
The way things are going, perhaps detecting incoming nukes again might be a better idea.
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Originally Posted by RAFEngO74to09
(Post 11258064)
Might be a job opportunity for any retired ground radar techs living in the area - possibly former fighter contoller / ABM as well !
This story made it onto TV in the USA. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ar-system.html https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7ba...r-to-find-ufos |
I seam to remember being told that Neatishead's R12 had a crack down it after someone thought it would be a good idea to try and put the antenna into sector scan (well that was the rumour I was told when based at Staxton)
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Ahh - the T85 60 degree sector scan….
T84 turntable bearings…. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....370a7caed.jpeg |
Would turning on the T84 interfere with the operations of RRH Trimingham?
What would Auntie Joan think ... |
Originally Posted by SLXOwft
(Post 11258408)
Would turning on the T84 interfere with the operations of RRH Trimingham?
What would Auntie Joan think ... https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/local-c...-moved-9120878 |
I thought the main radars for Neatishead were near Cromer and the T84 was just put there as a museum piece.
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No, both the T84 and T85 were based on the Ops site and fed directly into the R30 Ops block. Remote radar sites only started coming back in with the e introduction of the T90 and T91 radars in the 1980s - necessitating the use of a DPAVC* to convert their digital output to analogue in order to interface with the current consoles until UKADGE came on-line.
Which is another story of vanishing blips and data buffer overloads… *Digital Plot to Analogue Video Converter. |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11258901)
No, both the T84 and T85 were based on the Ops site and fed directly into the R30 Ops block. Remote radar sites only started coming back in with the e introduction of the T90 and T91 radars in the 1980s - necessitating the use of a DPAVC* to convert their digital output to analogue in order to interface with the current consoles until UKADGE came on-line.
Which is another story of vanishing blips and data buffer overloads… *Digital Plot to Analogue Video Converter. Still remember Duncan Campbell's program about British Air Defence Computer screw ups. |
Ah, the happy days at Eastern Rader, having the T84/T85 fed to us from Neat by microwave links. Oh, God, that 4 rpm was nerve-wracking when doing hectic ATC stuff over E. Anglia. Our 8 rpm Orange Yeoman T82 was much nicer to work with!
Under normal Ops, a few consoles had 'double-headed displays', with the T82 in the lower position and the Neat radar of the day on a separate display above it (eg. Console 6A, right end of front row]. If the T82 went Pete Tong, everyone could select the T84/T85 feed ... and sweat in between sweeps of the antenna! https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ec3aebea6.jpeg |
Originally Posted by MPN11
(Post 11258923)
Ah, the happy days at Eastern Rader, having the T84/T85 fed to us from Neat by microwave links. Oh, God, that 4 rpm was nerve-wracking when doing hectic ATC stuff over E. Anglia. Our 8 rpm Orange Yeoman T82 was much nicer to work with!
Under normal Ops, a few consoles had 'double-headed displays', with the T82 in the lower position and the Neat radar of the day on a separate display above it (eg. Console 6A, right end of front row]. If the T82 went Pete Tong, everyone could select the T84/T85 feed ... and sweat in between sweeps of the antenna! https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ec3aebea6.jpeg |
And No. 293 Sqn’s Bloodhound site gave me and few mates some dry-footed rough shooting in the 70s!
When did Eastern Radar finally expire, and move to LATCC and then Swanwick? I could have been ERD’/Watton’s last CO, but AOC MATO black-balled me as “I had a serving wife who could not fulfil the duties of an independent Unit’s CO’s spouse.” Ah, the Flower Arranging and Wives’s Club. Those were the days! Never forgotten or forgiven!! |
Originally Posted by MPN11
(Post 11258968)
And No. 293 Sqn’s Bloodhound site gave me and few mates some dry-footed rough shooting in the 70s!
When did Eastern Radar finally expire, and move to LATCC and then Swanwick? I could have been ERD’/Watton’s last CO, but AOC MATO black-balled me as “I had a serving wife who could not fulfil the duties of an independent Unit’s CO’s spouse.” Ah, the Flower Arranging and Wives’s Club. Those were the days! Never forgotten or forgiven!! |
Originally Posted by MAINJAFAD
(Post 11258995)
The Type 82 was still there in 1981 and Luffenham's one was still going in 1983. Watton was still going in 1992/93 as some of our guys at Ty-Croes were detached there for some reason to cover our airspace when the Type 94 was down for extended servicing.
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I visited the Royal Air Force Air Defence Radar Museum at Neatishead last month and found it very interesting indeed. There were presentations made during the visit by operators who had served there and explained the workings as well as a few anecdotes. One of these concerned a Soviet intelligence-gathering trawler off NW Scotland which was selected for a "roasting" for some reason. The power was turned right up and "aimed" at this ship and, supposedly, burnt out all electronic equipment. This rather puzzled me because AFAIK radar is line-of-sight and there are certainly a good few hills between low-lying Neatishead and the coast of NW Scotland and also wouldn't all this immense electronic power be destroying a swathe of electronic equipment across Britain. I asked the presenters about this and got no coherent answer.
Can anyone here tell me if this was true and/or possible, or simply a canteen story spun to anybody not in the know to amuse/impress them ? |
Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob
(Post 11259022)
I wasn't aware that any AR-3Ds were operational in the UK?
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Can anyone here tell me if this was true and/or possible, or simply a canteen story spun to anybody not in the know to amuse/impress them ? However, as an addendum. https://www.pprune.org/military-avia...ml#post2943619 |
Originally Posted by ORAC
(Post 11259058)
A load, as they say, of borrocks..
However, as an addendum. https://www.pprune.org/military-avia...ml#post2943619 |
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