RAF Greatworth Station Call-Sign

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RAF Greatworth Station Call-Sign

Posted by Eric Rogers on June 30, 2011 at 3:23 AM

Do any members remember what the Station Call-Sign was? All Radio Stations operating on assigned frequencies are required to transmit identifying call-signs, including routine military services, RAF Locking for example used the call-sign MRM for transmissions on 5105KHz, at least from the late 1950`s until much later, probably until it closed. I think that Greatworth must have had a call-sign in the "M" Air Ministry series, later (MOD), any clues? Eric (Rogers).

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3 Comments

Reply Martin

03:06 PM on June 30, 2011

Since most of our traffic originated from Stanbridge, wouldn't they be the ones to have a callsign? I don't recall one for Greatworth, anyone got an idea on this? But I do remember our spider logo, proudly pinned up, having a number on it, this was the radio network spider for quality comms, a feather in RAF Greatworth's cap, might that be the number Eric?

Reply Eric Rogers

01:02 PM on June 30, 2011

Martin, sending "V" or strings of V`s is a standard signalling procedure usually meaning, "I have traffic for you" it calls attention to the station being called, but it is not a Call-Sign, these are usually three letter calls for radio stations and ships, for example GKA, GKB, GKC etc were used by the British Post Office for maritime working to ships, Call-signs used by the Air Ministry usually began with "M" plus two letters, e.g MRM (Locking), but I do not recall RAF Greatworths Call Sign, it must have had one to comply with International Regulations.