Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II. The name refers to CHL's ability to...
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Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal early warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force (RAF) before and during...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (section Chain Home, Chain Home Low, Chain Home Extra Low, ROTOR and tropo-scatter stations)
the Chain Home Low sites were co-located with the larger Chain Home radars. Chain Home Extra Low equipment was co-located with "Chain Home" and "Chain Home...
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"Chain Hang Low" is the debut single by American rapper Jibbs from his 2006 debut album Jibbs Featuring Jibbs. It uses a sample of the children's song...
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Island Ness of Sound Battery, Yell Island Stannergate Battery, Dundee Chain Home Low (CHL), a new aircraft detection and tracking system, Radar, operated...
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Craster radar station (also known as RAF Craster), was a Chain Home Low (later a Chain Home Extra Low) Second World War radar site at Craster in Northumberland...
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Near the summit of the hill also lie the remains of a World War II Chain Home Low RDF station. Meayll Hill Stone Circle is a unique archaeological monument...
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that was used in coastal defence and was incorporated into Chain Home as Chain Home (low). Before the Second World War, researchers in the United Kingdom...
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During the Second World War, RAF Dunwich was one of the Chain Home Low stations which provided low-level radar cover for the central East Anglian coast....
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by a uniform gravitational force Chain Home and Chain Home Low, early British RDF (radar) systems of the WWII era Chain tool, a small mechanical device...
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Force (RAF) built Loth Chain Home radar station at Crakaig, a few miles south-west of Helmsdale. There was also an RAF Chain Home Low radar station at Navidale...
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during World War II to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow, including a Chain Home Low radar station and a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps during the...
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league in the United States and Canada, became United Hockey League Chain Home Low, a radar system used by the British Royal Air Force during World War...
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British also introduced 200MHz radars for early warning of low flying aircraft (Chain Home Low) and target tracking for ground-controlled interception (AMES...
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ironworks, which opened in early 1831.[citation needed] The remains of a Chain Home Low early warning radar station are situated in Margam Country Park, dating...
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Preface by Frank McConnell Masquerade and High Water by Colin Greenland Chain Home, Low by John M. Ford Stronger Than Desire by Lisa Goldstein Each Damp Thing...
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Sullom Voe flying boat base. A combined Coastal Defence U-boat and Chain Home Low station was also built during the Second World War at Saxa Vord; after...
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there to Malvern, Worcestershire in 1942. Bawdsey had both Chain Home and Chain Home Low early warning radar stations during World War II. The World...
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RAF Bomber Command aircraft of World War II Ground Chain Home, early warning radar Chain Home Low AMES Type 7 GL Mk. I radar, gun laying radar for anti-aircraft...
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The canonical EW radar is the British Chain Home system, which entered full-time service in 1938. It used a very low pulse repetition of 25 pps and very...
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Radar in World War II (section Chain Home)
series of shorter-range stations built right on the coast, known as Chain Home Low (CHL). These systems had been intended for naval gun-laying and known...
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Otherwise similar to the AW, a new antenna design based on the UK's Chain Home Low provided the desired range in a robust multi-unit array that could be...
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Type 271 radar (section Chain Home Extra Low)
new attacks by German aircraft that were not being detected by their Chain Home Low systems. These raids, later nicknamed "tip-n-run" after a backyard cricket...
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television receiver, was used as the basis of the ASV Mk. II radar, Chain Home Low, AMES Type 7, and many other radar systems throughout the war. By late...
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World War it was established as a radar station, becoming part of the Chain Home Low (CHL) network. 1940 The first CHL radar station was installed in early...
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St Tudno's graveyard. During the Second World War, the RAF built a Chain Home Low radar station at the summit. In 1952 the site was taken into private...
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World War II. Earlier Chain Home stations were able to spot aircraft at higher altitudes, so a second network, the Chain Home Low stations, of which Margam...
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Chain Home radar station at Kilkenneth and an RAF Chain Home Low radar station at Beinn Hough. These were preceded by a temporary RAF Advanced Chain Home...
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Head is a former Royal Air Force radar station and one of the many Chain Home Low radar stations, being situated near Beachy Head and Eastbourne in East...
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