[SFDXA] The Secret Listeners

[Bill]

*The Secret Listeners
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The Radio Security Service was a WWII secret organisation, the existence 
of which was not revealed until 1979 (several years later than Ultra and 
Bletchley Park). These pages explain how several thousand Morse Code 
readers, mainly licensed radio amateurs, penetrated the enemy secret 
services and had as a result a profound influence on various military 
operations, especially the Normandy landings and beyond. A total of 
268,000 coded messages, picked up by these amateurs, were decoded at 
Bletchley Park.

Read about how some 1,500 Voluntary Interceptors eavesdropped on the 
various enemy secret transmissions by listening to short wave radio 
signals in complete secrecy yet in their own homes. As time passed, 
full-time monitoring took place in several purpose-built stations using 
the best possible equipment and aerials. Without these skilled 
operators, the control of German spies in this country would not have 
been possible.


The Voluntary Interceptors were eventually coordinated  in a large house 
near Barnet called “Arkley View”
Many of the volunteers became involved in Direction Finding
Initially the Voluntary Interceptors were looking for spies but later 
helped with counter-espionage
Many of the participants only found out their role in 1979 when Renee 
Cutforth’s documentary researched by Paul Cort-Wright (G3SEM) appeared 
on BBCTV. See a copy here: http://eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5108






  The Radio Security Service was a WWII secret organisation, the 
existence of which was not revealed until 1979 (several years later than 
Ultra and Bletchley Park). These pages explain how several thousand 
Morse Code readers, mainly licensed radio amateurs, penetrated the enemy 
secret services and had as a result a profound influence on various 
military operations, especially the Normandy landings and beyond. A 
total of 268,000 coded messages, picked up by these amateurs, were 
decoded at Bletchley Park.

Read about how some 1,500 Voluntary Interceptors eavesdropped on the 
various enemy secret transmissions by listening to short wave radio 
signals in complete secrecy yet in their own homes. As time passed, 
full-time monitoring took place in several purpose-built stations using 
the best possible equipment and aerials. Without these skilled 
operators, the control of German spies in this country would not have 
been possible.

The early days of the Voluntary Interceptors can be found here

https://cdmnet.org/RSS/SecretListeners/index.html

https://cdmnet.org/RSS/SecretListeners/

The Voluntary Interceptors were eventually coordinated  in a large house 
near Barnet called “Arkley View”
Many of the volunteers became involved in Direction Finding
Initially the Voluntary Interceptors were looking for spies but later 
helped with counter-espionage
Many of the participants only found out their role in 1979 when Renee 
Cutforth’s documentary researched by Paul Cort-Wright (G3SEM) appeared 
on BBCTV. See a copy here: http://eafa.org.uk/catalogue/5108
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