Given the title of the Museum, one might expect to find 'Radio's' and 'Radar's' only, but, as you will see, the Museum is much more than its name suggests. To give you a brief insight and to whet your appetite, the Museum has information/and or artefact on the following general subjects which includes radio communications and radars. In addition, there is a wealth of information expressed in anecdotal form by the Curator of the Museum and his volunteer staff. At this stage in the site, the buttons below are not active and are displayed as name plates only !
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The Museum was primarily established to preserve examples of 20th Century Communication, Radar and the associated test equipment as used in the Royal Navy. Over the years the museum has been expanded to house captured German, Japanese and Russian Military equipment and additionally Commercial Domestic Radios.
Now whilst the word "communications" can be stretched to encompass all sub sub branches of the R.N., Communications Branch, the core business of this site deals almost in its entirety with 'spuds-and-bread' W/T, and therefore, save for mentioning some of its equipment {receivers and aerials} there is no mention of Electronic Warfare {EW}, nor of the Communication Technician {CT} Branch, the Telegraphist Special {TEL 'S'} Branch or the Visual Signalling [V/S] Branch, remembering [tongue-in-cheek] that the anagram of "AS TO BUNTING TOSSER" is .....SENT RN SIGS TO UBOAT......and sparkers would never do that ! Coupled with this overall statement on "communications", is a more profound summary of what is shown on the home page [albeit succinct and brief] concerning the centenary of the RN W/T Branch in this the year 2007. Please CLICK on this thumbnail below
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to read the short summary.
Many of the equipments are maintained in a working state.
The displays include:
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The original Jackson Spark Transmitter.
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A Marconi Spark Transmitter and magnetic detector.
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Original Wartime and Post War radar/radio equipments .
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Complete Radio Office from a 1925 Destroyer.
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Fittings from the Victoria and Albert Royal Yacht.
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Part of Graf Spee's radar aerial
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A large collection of Historic Valves and Magnetrons including a Randall and Boots Prototype.
A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE IF YOU ARE USING ADOBE READER 8
On this site there are many PDF files. When you open them in ADOBE READER 8 you may have to click on a special icon to make sure that the pages all follow on from each other. This is particularly important where large block or schematic diagrams have been publish in two or more sections. In ADOBE 8, look at the task bar [the top bar one of whose icons is the printer] and approximately in the middle you will see icons with arrows in them, the first being two arrows pointing East and West, and the second, four arrows pointing N,S,E and W. Click on the two arrow icon.
