{"id":35828,"date":"2019-02-01T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35828"},"modified":"2019-02-01T08:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T12:31:19","slug":"the-curious-history-of-the-foxhall-transmission-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-curious-history-of-the-foxhall-transmission-station\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious history of the Foxhall Transmission Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foxhall Towers (Source: Steve from geograph.org.uk via Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

John Norman writes in the East Anglia Daily Times about the Foxhall transmission site just outside Ipswich which played a key role in WW2 and the Cold War<\/p>\n

Getting a coded signal back to the States, both during the Second World War and the Cold War, proved incredibly difficult. The solution was Operation Tea Bag: a scheme to connect telephone switching stations from across Europe, as far south as Italy, to Foxhall for forward transmission across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

Read the article at
\nhttps:\/\/www.eadt.co.uk\/news\/ipswich-icons-when-the-cold-war-was-played-out-right-on-our-doorsteps-in-suffolk-1-4947730<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC) John Norman writes in the East Anglia Daily Times about the Foxhall transmission site just outside Ipswich which played a key role in WW2 and the Cold War Getting a coded signal back to the States, both during the Second World War and the Cold War, proved incredibly difficult. The solution was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,288,43],"tags":[752,7582,4091,580,676],"class_list":["post-35828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cold-war","tag-foxhall-transmission-station","tag-radio-history","tag-southgate-arc","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9jS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39297,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/saq-receives-438-listener-reports\/","url_meta":{"origin":35828,"position":0},"title":"SAQ receives 438 listener reports","author":"Thomas","date":"August 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Southgate ARC) Alexanderson Alternator station\u00a0SAQ\u00a0says it received 438 listener reports \u2014 'an incredible amount' \u2014 for its June 30 Alexanderson Day transmissions from Sweden including 8 'super' DX reports, five from the USA and three from Canada. 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