Station X, GB2BP, Bletchley Park

The North Shore ARC would like to welcome Bill Collier, G0TGU, and Verdun Webley,  G0RKV, of the Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society of Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England.   Bill and Verdun are spearheading arrangements in England at Station X to make contact with our Camp X station here in Canada during the Camp X special event weekend commemorating the 55th anniversary of VE Day.

  Bletchley Park Mansion, site of Station X, GB2BP.

Much is happening here in England to get ready for May 8th. We have arranged for greetings messages from dignitaries to be exchanged from Bletchley Parks special event station GB2BP to Camp X on both Sunday 7th, and of course Monday 8th at your specified times.

We will also be operating from Station X, the original transmitting room in the top of Bletchley Park Mansion. This has now been restored to its original state, and was used by MI6 during the war to send messages to agents in neutral countries in Europe, and also for messages to, and from resistence movements in occupied countries. As it is highly likely, that agents trained at Camp X will have used this facility after being dropped in occupied countries, the Bletchley Park Trust, have allowed us to use it for this special day. It is situated next door to Churchills bedroom, as he liked to know what was happening, when it was happening! The room is not open to the general public, and is only shown to special visitors, so we feel very privileged to be able to transmit from there.From here we will be trying to make contact using a Mark 123 spy set. With favourable propogation and a good tail wind we could do it!

The Director General of the Bletchley Park Trust, Sir Philip Duncombe, will also be sending greetings. Messages will also be sent by Mr. Dave McQue G4NJU, who is Vice-Chairman of the Radio Society of Great Britain. We will also hope to link you up with Beaumanor Hall in Leicestershire where enigma coded traffic from Rommel was intercepted during the war and fed back to Bletchley Park via a secure teleprinter link for decoding. The special event team there is being run by Mr. Peter Crooks. I believe that such a 'triangle' of what must be three of the most historic sites of World War 2, has never happened before, and certainly from this side of the Atlantic, there is huge interest in the event. We will keep you informed of events as they take place here in England.

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Event Operating Equipment