Date: 16 May 2006
Hello
By sheer chance I have just happened on your web page referencing RAF Locking - that and your other content immediately took me back fifty years to 1956 when I also did National Service there as an instructor, and subsequently went on to work at Marconi doing development work on amongst other kit the Type 7 and Type 80. Your memory is considerably better than mine so reading all your adventures and experiences was a real wallow in nostalgia - it is one of the wonders of the web that such personal information can now be made available for general pleasure. Just thought you would like to know that your efforts are appreciated.
Regards
Alan Hartley-Smith (once 2736797)
Alan tells me that he spent his National Service as an instructor on the Type 64 Fixed Coil Console from November 55 to November 56. He enhanced the fault finding training on that equipment by initiating feedback from the radar sites to enable him to introduce more realistic problems for the students to correct. After his civilian work described above he worked with the introduction of computer techniques of data handling into various aspects of a variety of later radar systems. Following that he was involved with the marketing of ATC radars at home and abroad.
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