144 Signals Unit-Info required

[hasselbankjimmy]

DT_Xtremez_28: HI ALL. i NEED INFORMATION ON 144 SU ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WERE AT RAF WATTISHAM AND RAF TY CROES.

ANY HELP MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!!

 

[mad_collie]

Thread moved to appropriate forum.

Drop mainjafad a PM, he knows stuff about the strange places you talk of.

 

[I Look Like Kevin Costner]

MJ will indeed be your man, as everybody that was based in troggland got a double bond gizit made by his own hands!!DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Comms_Lad]

DT_Xtremez_28: HI ALL. i NEED INFORMATION ON 144 SU ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WERE AT RAF WATTISHAM AND RAF TY CROES.

ANY HELP MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!!

Hello yourself, do us all a favour bold capital typing messes with your eyes, well its messing with mine. Stop frackin shouting

 

[planesailing]

144 Signals Unit-Info required

Another first poster who wants info on a unit.

How about posting some info on who you are,where you are and why your new unit can`t give you the info you require?

Another one for the mods maybe? DT_Xtremez_24:

suspicious old git!

 

[mad_collie]

Another first poster who wants info on a unit.

How about posting some info on who you are,where you are and why your new unit can`t give you the info you require?

Another one for the mods maybe? DT_Xtremez_24:

suspicious old git!

How about you let us do the moderating?

 

[hasselbankjimmy]

144 SU Resurrected

144 SU Resurrected

Need the info because I am trying to resurrect the Unit at Cosford as a trg SU for ab initio TG4 Op/Maintainers.

I have tried the usual places ie National Archives, Air Historical Branch but, to no avail! The best info I found was on here E-Goat through a spot of 'goggle'

Hope anyone who has the Gen can help!

I have taken the point on putting letters in BOLD-did not realise it was classed as shouting!

 

[Scaley brat]

I have taken the point on putting letters in BOLD-did not realise it was classed as shouting!

I think most of us forgot to wipe our feet when we first turned up her mate, don't worry about it.
As mad_collie said earlier, PM Mainjafad. He is a font of knowledge about this sort of thing. Welcome to the Goat and good luck in your quest.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

MJ will indeed be your man, as everybody that was based in troggland got a double bond gizit made by his own hands!!DT_Xtremez_30:

Not everybody, maybe about two-thirds, 99 in total (didn't start making them until the year before the unit closed). Did time on the SU at Wattishambles as well (and funny old thing, passed the old 144 SU site this evening).

144 SU Badge, issued in 1993/94. The area around Ty-Croes has the biggest Owl Colony in the UK, hence the Owl sitting on the pinnacle of rock (the rock has a welsh name, which I cannot remember). The Motto is 'Watching the Skies' in Welsh. I was walking past the UHF/VHF antenna farm when on nights and saw an Owl sitting on one of the UHF antennas just like the picture on the badge, hence I can see where the design came from.

 

[I Look Like Kevin Costner]

Not everybody, maybe about two-thirds, 99 in total (didn't start making them until the year before the unit closed).

Why spoil a good story.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Why spoil a good story.

But I did also do the second best unit Slag Mag in RAF History while there as well. I would say the best, but Bic's 'The Unst B@stard' from Saxa Vord in 1989/90 has me beat on that one.

 

[planesailing]

144 Signals Unit-Info required

How about you let us do the moderating?

Message received, Humble pie duly eaten.


DT_Xtremez_06:

 

[hasselbankjimmy]

144 SU Resurrected

144 SU Resurrected

Mainjafad,

Many thanks for all the info, it is greatly appreciated. The Badge is excllent also-much better than the one I have already.

The main gap in the SU's history is now Wattisham. When and what it did and what equipments. I have e-mailed a former Electronic Support OC, who was at Wattisham-maybe he can cast some light! Also, I have a guy from RAF Bawdsey looking up some gen. It is a complicated jigsaw but we are getting there!

Regards to all who helped

 

[Shanester]

I worked on the T93 at Brunton Airfield in North Northumberland around the time of 1992 to 1995 and we were known as 144su, and the T93 that was based at Albamarle Barracks about 40 miles south were known as 500su. Around that time in early 1992 we were penciled in to move to North wales but it never happened. don't know if this helps but I thought I'd mention it.DT_Xtremez_27:

 

[dogman]

144su

144su

DT_Xtremez_28: HI ALL. i NEED INFORMATION ON 144 SU ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WERE AT RAF WATTISHAM AND RAF TY CROES.

ANY HELP MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!!

telephone RAF Radar Museum on Tues ask for roy Bullers 01692 631485 he possibly could give you all the gen

 

[MAINJAFAD]

telephone RAF Radar Museum on Tues ask for roy Bullers 01692 631485 he possibly could give you all the gen

Roy is the man, and he knows the histroy of RAF Air defence a hell of a lot better than me on the early radar and Ops side, he may also know thing's that are not in his 144 SU Wattisham book of good gen is now siting on my computer waiting to be OCR'ed, like the actual day in September 1985 that the unit formed at Wattisham. Nothing in that book either about the 144 SU deployment that stated off with a lot of bangs in September 1989. MainJafad, take that SLR with 20 live rounds and stand in a slit trench next to that Wattisham Type 95 Radar for the next two hours. The start of the end for RAF Bishops Court.

I worked on the T93 at Brunton Airfield in North Northumberland around the time of 1992 to 1995 and we were known as 144su, and the T93 that was based at Albamarle Barracks about 40 miles south were known as 500su. Around that time in early 1992 we were penciled in to move to North wales but it never happened. don't know if this helps but I thought I'd mention it.DT_Xtremez_27:

Yes it help and does confirm some of the information I've passed, Do you know if that T93 kept the 144 SU tag past 1st December 95? As your T93 unit's correct title was actually 144SU (Designate) until then.

 

[NotAnIDOYet]

Roy is the man, and he knows the histroy of RAF Air defence a hell of a lot better than me on the early radar and Ops side, he may also know thing's that are not in his 144 SU Wattisham book of good gen is now siting on my computer waiting to be OCR'ed.



Yes it help and does confirm some of the information I've passed, Do you know if that T93 kept the 144 SU tag past 1st December 95? As your T93 unit's correct title was actually 144SU (Designate) until then.

If I remember correctly 144SU was subsumed into 1ACC when they stood up in 1995 although the T93 was never part of 1ACC's inventory, think the radar itself and some personnel were at Sealand. 1ACC had the technicians on their LUE but we never saw them.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

If I remember correctly 144SU was subsumed into 1ACC when they stood up in 1995 although the T93 was never part of 1ACC's inventory, think the radar itself and some personnel were at Sealand. 1ACC had the technicians on their LUE but we never saw them.

You're most likely correct come to think of it, I knew that the Type 93 was planned for Ty-Croes as there was an area of the site earmarked for it. I didn’t know that one of the T93 Convoy’s had the 144 SU designate plate until I got on to a mainland T93, almost 10 years after I left Ty-Croes.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Mainjafad,

Many thanks for all the info, it is greatly appreciated. The Badge is excllent also-much better than the one I have already.

The main gap in the SU's history is now Wattisham. When and what it did and what equipments. I have e-mailed a former Electronic Support OC, who was at Wattisham-maybe he can cast some light! Also, I have a guy from RAF Bawdsey looking up some gen. It is a complicated jigsaw but we are getting there!

Regards to all who helped

As Dogman says Contact the RAF ADRM at Neatishead and talk to Roy, as he may know something that I haven't found yesterday (my info on the kit's at Wattisham on the PM was almost spot on, full details to follow on a very interesting PM). The Museum at Neatishead have plenty of information on the kits at Bawdsey, (Rotor GCI Station) including photos, site plan and all of the equipment AP's. Likewise for the GL161/SLEWC system supported by 144SU's Electronic Support Flight , as the Museum has a complete SLEWC Ops room, as it was when the system was phased out of service in 1993. It also has one of the Type 95 Radar's used by 144SU's Tactical Radar Flight is outside the main entrance (plus all of the AP's for that as well).

 

[Fearless Leader]

Need the info because I am trying to resurrect the Unit at Cosford as a trg SU for ab initio TG4 Op/Maintainers.

I have tried the usual places ie National Archives, Air Historical Branch but, to no avail! The best info I found was on here E-Goat through a spot of 'goggle'

Hope anyone who has the Gen can help!

I have taken the point on putting letters in BOLD-did not realise it was classed as shouting!

Well my first reaction is sod off, an SU badge for a TG4 training unit?

But on the other hand we've been hanging sqn numbers on everything that moves and drips AVGAS so what the hell?!!