radar Archives - Frontline Ulster

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Second World War, Wales

Wartime transmission experiments and two unknown sites in County Down

The 1930s and 1940s saw huge advances in the development of radio and radar technologies, with one of the most sophisticated networks of Radio Direction Finding (RDF) being deployed in…

Northern Ireland, Original Research, Second World War

Radar in Northern Ireland 1939 – 1945

One rainy afternoon in lockdown, I thought I would do some research on finding evidence for the WW2 radar sites that were once dotted around Northern Ireland. Finding photographic evidence…

Cold War, Northern Ireland, Second World War

RAF Greystone Radar Station

A photographic visit.