New guy interested in wireless intelligence

Hello
I'm just old enough to remember the "interesting" things about WW2 like seeing the sky filled with aircraft from horizon to horizon and a V1 blowing all our windows and doors out. I'm now almost completely retired and have spend the last few years reading books and sifting through declassified documents at the National Archives researching WW2 wireless interception. I've been interested in radio since I was a schoolboy and have had a ham radio licence since 1980. There were a number of secret Y stations in the St Albans area where I live.

I've given a few talks about the subject to radio cubs and a couple at Bletchley Park and I'm always amazed at the valuable information people come forward with at these events. I can't help with most WW2 subjects but I hope I may be of some help on the subject of wireless intelligence gathering. I have put up a simple web site about Y stations just as a try out at - http://www.freewebs.com/ystations/


and have been involved with the rebuilding of this site:-
www.secretlisteners.org The page on Direction Finding is mine.

I would be pleased to hear from anyone with information about, or may have been involved with, wireless interception and direction finding and will do my best to find answers to any questions anyone on the forum may have.

All the best

Stan
Harpenden
"Without the radio interceptors, Bletchley Park would have had nothing to decode"

 

Hi Stan and welcome to the forum.

Regards
Andy

 

Hello Stan,

Welcome to the forum.

Regards
Peter

 

Hi Stan and welcome to the forum.

Regards,

Nick

 

Welcome

 

Stan,

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Your signature says it all

Regards
Tom

 

Hello and welcome, Stan. Enjoy.

 

Stan welcome to the forum , I would be interested in anything you can tell us about the "Y- listening service".

Best Regards
James S

 

Hi Stan and welcome. Very interesting links posted, thanks.

Mike

 

Welcome to the forum.


Cheers
Paul

 

Greetings, Stan, and welcome to the forum from Canada.

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cheers,
phil

 

To.
Drew5233, dbf, Peter Clare, Nicks, Owen, CL1, Smudger Jnr (Ahh, you regognised the HROs !), Gage and James S (thanks for the Gilnahirk link).

Thanks for the warm welcome, nice to meet you all. I hope to put more of the archive material on the net soon and provide links here. I must speak to von Poop about the best place to start a new thread.

All best
Stan

 

Welcome Stan, I have an interest in what happened at the other end of the teleprinter lines and the dispatch riders journey. (breaking codes)

geoff

 

Does make me wonder if we're lacking a 'Top Secret/Intelligence' section for things like Bletchley, cryptology, interception etc.

Excellent idea.

 

Hmm, it is a bit of an omission isn't it.
New 'Top Secret' Forum here:
http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/top-secret/

May retitle or move later, but it's a start.

Good idea.

 

Welcome to the forum Stan from Australia.