The Duxford Radio Society (DRS) provides the function of the Radio Section at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, near Cambridge. DRS consists of a group of radio communications specialist volunteers who research, conserve, restore, display and operate historic military radio, radar and navigation equipment to support the Imperial War Museums Duxford operation.
The equipment on display covers examples of the following categories of military communication:
Radio communication in land warfare, airborne combat and naval warfare between 1914 and 2010
- Airborne radio navigation between 1941 and 1970
- Airborne radar used in WW2 and the early cold war
- Clandestine communications between 1942 and 1970
Our visit will consist of demonstrations and explanations of the various equipment DRS has conserved and restored, including:
- a working Gee System Teaching Set Type 30 Navigator ground training station
- a working 'Command' Radio System from USA B17 and B24 aircraft
- (hopefully) a working war-time H2S radar system being driven by modern digital processors (H2S was the WW2 3cm radar carried by the heavy bombers to give them a PPI display of the terrain under the aircraft, as an aid to navigation and target identification.)
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