The 'Introduce yourself' Thread

Sidney

When were you at the Ravenscar Radio Track Guide Station ? I know of Vic Dagnell who was there in February 1944 as a wireless mechanic and worked on the the Swab transmitter and Darkie TR9 sets .

Can you remember where the Tow Law beacon was ?
Thank you

beides diss eleven other postings all over g.b
ive posted each one with short stories . please search and come back to me if of interest
im still not [at age 91]follow this wonderful system [ineed all the help i can get]
sidney young ex lac radio w. mech
whats next step to make sure you get this message

Thanks Sidney. I (and others) have read your posts on the airfield threads. You are doing just fine, keep 'em coming!

Hi, my name is Paul, i live in Fleckney, love all stuff to do with aircraft,photography and satellite dish installation and reception,radio dxing and electronics. I frequent Bruntingthorpe most Sundays taking photos, i would volunteer but as i work as a vehicle mechanic all week i feel it would be a bit much spending my weekends there helping out.I;ll travel most places to get pics of different aircraft and found your website after trawling the net looking for information about the history of RAF Bruntingthorpe. Cheers.

Hello Paul, a warm welcome to AIX

Welcome to AiX Paul

Good morning everyone. I have finally joined this excellent forum after spending the past couple of days using bits of it for research for various things.

My personal interests are anything and everything WW2 related focusing mainly on the USAAF and the RAF during the war. I'm fortunate to currently live in Bomber County but originally I'm from Northamptonshire. I was lucky to have grown up not a million miles away from Harrington and have spent many weekends touring the USAAF bases in the area and trying to learn more about them, their infrastructure and what made them 'tick'.

I also have a passion for the Battle of Britain and have spent many holidays down in Kent walking the white cliffs and visiting Manston and Hawkinge, and I am lucky enough to remember Hawkinge before the developers moved in and ruined it!

I look forward to reading the many and varied topics on the forum and hopefully increasing my knowledge at the same time!!

All the best

Jon

Hi Jon, welcome to the forum

Hello Everyone,
I wondered if any of you are interested in working to preserve dis-used airfields by leasing the land to construct solar farms?

BELECTRIC is the world's largest solar engineering company -we build large scale solar farms in harmony with nature.

So how would this work and what are the likely benefits? (THIS IS EXPLORATORY ONLY AT THIS STAGE)

1) Solar Farms are TEMPORARY structures which create clean, renewable energy for 25 years

2) They can be planted with wildflower to create enhanced natural habitats

3) The solar farms need underground cable runs down to a depth of 1.2 meters - any artifacts recovered and handed over to the landowner or local/national aviation conservation trust

4) There may be some project money available for erecting memorials or information boards / assisting with community actions groups (after appropriate public consultation)

5) The solar farms are decommissioned after 25 years and the land is returned to its previous state with no pollution

If you feel this may be of interest to a dis-used airfield then please get in touch.
A couple of last points - sites must be south of Nottingham (draw a line across the country) and have access to the electricity grid via overhead lines or substation.

I look forward to any helpful / constructive comments you might have.

ATB
Paul Camp
Business Development and Finance
BELECTRIC Solar Ltd
07943 -859 -763