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[Leslie Smith]

*Hue*:
"As for the distance, the home station had very good antennas and
receivers, trained operators, and higher powered transmitters."

Until some years ago, Geoff Linthorne, Vk2GL - now SK - was a member at our
local radio club - Westlakes Radio Club.  Geoff was British and had
actually been to Bletchley Park.  He was old enough to remember when
British soldiers marched through this village after being dumped on English
beaches from Dunkirk.  His family billeted a Belgian officer.  As the group
marched past Geoff's house (ie his mother's house) the platoon sergeant
assessed the size of the house and shouted 'One in there'.

After the war Geoff trained with British Telecom (or whatever is the
official name).  At one time he was at Bletchley, where he loaded Enigma
coding machines onto trucks to be carted away and buried.  Geoff told me he
greatly regretted not stealing one or two; alas he was under strict
instruction about how to handle these 'things' and he followed instructions
to the letter.

My regret is not having a tape recorder when Geoff was around.  His
experience in the RAF (where he trained as a radio operator & top turret
gunner) gave him an appreciation of fact and decency that is rare today.
Now to your point of 'good aerials' and 'powerful transmitters'.

According to Geoff, there was an aerial "farm" some km from Bletchley.  He
made the point that it was sufficiently distant that no spy or photographer
would link the aerial farm and Bletchley.  You can understand I wish I had
recorded  some of Geoff's memories.

All the bes to yout, Hue

Leslie
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