On 29/08/2023 13:02, JMB99 wrote:

I came across this newspaper cutting.

What is it referring to at Bearley and Stratford?  Was there a proposal
for a new HF site? New bunker?

This has a map showing the location of the new 'transmitter arrays..

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald - Friday 01 July 1983

It refers to there already being a receiving station at Bearley.




Henstridge?

Stratford-upon-Avon Herald - Friday 14 October 1983

"Many hundreds of square miles of surrounding countryside will he
scarred by this steel jungle while Stratford itself lies some 600 foot
below".
The BBC claim the Bearley site is the only possible location in the UK
but STOG intend to make an issue of site selection at the forthcoming
inquiry.
Mr Gray said BBC engineers were proved wrong in their calculations at Henstridge in 1980. Certain figures on radio interference to military
aircraft were incorrect and the BBC had to drop the proposals.

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I came across this newspaper cutting.

What is it referring to at Bearley and Stratford? Was there a proposal
for a new HF site? New bunker?


Stratford-upon-Avon Herald - Friday 05 October 1984
Image © Iliffe News & Media Ltd. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH
LIBRARY BOARD.

Mast and the bunker
In the present arguments about the Bearley masts and the bunker in
Stratford, I would like to add that I understand the BBC wants radio
masts in Bearley for stronger broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain, so
that Russia would not be able to jam the service which is very important
for people there who have been cut off from news of the outside world.
Total press and broadcasting censorship stops the Russians and other nationalities in the Soviet Union knowing that non-Communist countries
do much better. The Russians are indoctrinated in the upside-down belief
that they are more prosperous and freer than we are.
It was reported already in 1980, that Russia has been spending £175,000
each day to blot out the BBC's services. The Russians have a chain of
2,500 highly-sophisticated jamming transmitters. which cost an estimated
£lOO million to build.
If Bearley is the right place for the masts that is a different question
and I leave that to the experts.
The same thing could be said about the worth of having the bunker in
Stratford in the case of nuclear war; although the Russians do not think
so. They are not only building the bunkers but also forcing people to
take exercises in case of war. Any objection would mean a free one-way
ticket to Siberia as a traitor of the country.
One thing is clear — the bomb must be kept for the sake of freedom and
peace — averting war through strength and not to surrender through fear
and blackmail.
Another question is that Western economical aid is a major factor
enabling Russia's military strength in the arms race. By financing
Soviet armaments through trade they increase the necessity to spend more
on their own defence, which some of them claim the) cannot afford.
It is suicidal for the West to subsidise the Russian economy so long as
it serves only to compensate for the drain on resources caused by
military expenditure.

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On Tue 29/08/2023 13:09, JMB99 wrote:

On 29/08/2023 13:02, JMB99 wrote:

I came across this newspaper cutting.

What is it referring to at Bearley and Stratford?  Was there a
proposal for a new HF site? New bunker?

This has a map showing the location of the new 'transmitter arrays..

 Stratford-upon-Avon Herald - Friday 01 July 1983

It refers to there already being a receiving station at Bearley.

Henstridge?

 Stratford-upon-Avon Herald - Friday 14 October 1983

"Many hundreds of square miles of surrounding countryside will he
scarred by this steel jungle while Stratford itself lies some 600 foot below".
The BBC claim the Bearley site is the only possible location in the UK
but STOG intend to make an issue of site selection at the forthcoming inquiry.
Mr Gray said BBC engineers were proved wrong in their calculations at Henstridge in 1980. Certain figures on radio interference to military aircraft were incorrect and the BBC had to drop the proposals.

They call it Bearley but I suspect it is on the former site of RAF Snitterfield.

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