Comments by "Bob Roberts" (@bobroberts2371) on "Ringway Manchester"
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I recently came across this:
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2412 for Friday January 19th, 2024
Title "UNDERGROUND RADIO" HAS DIFFERENT MEANING INSIDE BUNKER
PAUL/ANCHOR: Our final story this week takes us underground where one amateur radio club puts a Cold War-era relic to good use. Jeremy Boot G4NJH introduces us to that club.
JEREMY: A Cold War-era bunker that was one of the last to be taken out of service in the UK in 1991 has become a base for a ham radio club on the North Yorkshire Moors. Like so many radio operators before in the Royal Observer Corps, the hams are surrounded by concrete walls, 5 metres deep into the underground, as they transmit important information and take measurements. Now, however it is signal reports they are sending to other hams - not levels of radiation that would have followed the dreaded nuclear blast.
The station GBØROC of the Guisborough & District Amateur Radio Club is underground radio at its finest. Like the other bunker sites, this location was once a secret. Now you can't miss its high visibility on the map of various amateur radio awards schemes: It is part of the Bunkers on the Air scheme as B/G-0919, within Parks on the Air number G0003, Worldwide Flora and Fauna area GFF-0012 and Worked All Britain square NZ60. Its video on YouTube also shows how the club welcomes visitors who walk in or, in this case, climb in - since access to the radio room requires careful descent down a metal ladder.
The bunker is a restored symbol of history of a time when the world was on edge. Now its business of radioactivity is simply just that: friendly activity on the radio.
This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
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