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The "Y" service was a network of British signals intelligence collection sites, the Y-stations.^[1]

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Adcock antenna

The Adcock antenna is an antenna array consisting of four equidistant vertical elements which can be used to transmit or receive directional radio waves.

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Amateur radio

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.

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Battle of the Atlantic

The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II.

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Beachy Head

Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England.

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Beaumanor Hall

Beaumanor Hall is a stately home with a park in the small village of Woodhouse on the edge of the Charnwood Forest, near the town of Loughborough in Leicestershire, England.

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Beeston Hill Y Station

Beeston Hill Y Station was a secret listening station located on the summit of Beeston Hill, Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. Y service and Beeston Hill Y Station are military history of Norfolk.

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Bishop's Waltham

Bishop's Waltham (or Bishops Waltham) is a medieval market town situated at the source of the River Hamble in Hampshire, England.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. Y service and Bletchley Park are cryptography organizations and signals intelligence of World War II.

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Bridgwater

Bridgwater is a historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Brora Y Station

Brora Y Station was a Government listening station located South-east of Brora in Sutherland, Scotland which operated between 1940 and 1986.

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Cheadle, Staffordshire

Cheadle is a market town and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands District of Staffordshire, England, with a population of 12,000 at the 2021 census.

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Chipping Barnet

Chipping Barnet or High Barnet is a suburban market town in north London, forming part of the London Borough of Barnet, England. It is a suburban development built around a 12th-century settlement, and is located north-northwest of Charing Cross, east from Borehamwood, west from Enfield and south from Potters Bar.

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Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.

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Cupar

Cupar (Cùbar) is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Denmark Hill

Denmark Hill is an area and road in Camberwell, in the London Borough of Southwark, London, England.

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Direction finding

Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source.

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Donhead St Mary

Donhead St Mary is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, on the county border with Dorset.

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Dunstable

Dunstable is a market town and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London.

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Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

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Felixstowe

Felixstowe is a port town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primarily based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary. Y service and GCHQ are cryptography organizations.

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GCHQ Scarborough

GCHQ Scarborough is a satellite ground station located on Irton Moor, on the outskirts of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England, operated by the British signals intelligence service (GCHQ).

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General Post Office

The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969.

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Goniometer

A goniometer is an instrument that either measures an angle or allows an object to be rotated to a precise angular position.

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Goonhavern

Goonhavern (Goonhavar) is a village in Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Perranzabuloe.

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Gorleston-on-Sea

Gorleston-on-Sea, historically and colloquially known as Gorleston, is a seaside town in the borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England.

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Hall Place

Hall Place is a stately home in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London.

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Harpenden

Harpenden is a town and civil parish in the City and District of St Albans in the county of Hertfordshire, England.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Hawklaw Y Station

Hawklaw Y Station was a Government listening station located north of Cupar in Fife which operated between 1942 and 1988.

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High-frequency direction finding

High-frequency direction finding, usually known by its abbreviation HF/DF or nickname huff-duff, is a type of radio direction finder (RDF) introduced in World War II.

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Higher Wincombe

Higher Wincombe is a farm and small hamlet in the parish of Donhead St Mary, Wiltshire, England.

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HMS Forest Moor

HMS Forest Moor was a Royal Navy land base located in Nidderdale in the borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England.

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Karl Dönitz

Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 189124 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.

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Kedleston Hall

Kedleston Hall is a neo-classical manor house owned by the National Trust, and seat of the Curzon family, located in Kedleston, Derbyshire, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of Derby.

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Kemback

Kemback (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Bac) is a village and parish in Fife, Scotland, located east of Cupar.

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Knockholt

Knockholt is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.

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Landline

A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN).

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London Borough of Barnet

The London Borough of Barnet is a local authority area on the northern outskirts of London.

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Loughborough

Loughborough is a market town in the Charnwood Borough of Leicestershire, England; it is the administrative centre of Charnwood Borough Council.

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Marconi Company

The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company that did business under that name from 1963 to 1987.

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Markyate

Markyate is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire, close to the border with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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MI5

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Monks Risborough

Monks Risborough is a village and ecclesiastical parish in the civil parish of Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England, lying between Princes Risborough and Great Kimble. The village lies at the foot of the northern scarp of the Chiltern Hills. It is south of the county town of Aylesbury and north of High Wycombe, on the A4010 road.

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Navy News

Navy News is the official newspaper of the British Royal Navy, produced by a small team of editorial and support staff and published by the Ministry of Defence on a monthly basis.

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Newbold Revel

Newbold Revel refers to an existing 18th-century country house and a historic manorial estate in North East Warwickshire.

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North Walsham

North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, within the North Norfolk district.

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Points of the compass

The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography.

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Popular Communications

Popular Communications was a magazine with content relating to the radio hobby, including scanners, shortwave radio, CB, amateur radio, AM and FM broadcast band listening, radio history, and vintage radio restoration.

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RAF Chicksands

Royal Air Force Chicksands or more simply RAF Chicksands, was a Royal Air Force station located 7.7 miles (12.4 km) south east of Bedford, Bedfordshire and 11.6 miles (18.7 km) north east of Luton, Bedfordshire. It closed in 1997 when responsibility for the camp was taken over by the British Army Intelligence Corps.

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RAF Flowerdown

Royal Air Force Flowerdown, or more simply RAF Flowerdown, is a former Royal Air Force station located in Hampshire, England.

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RAF Waddington

Royal Air Force Waddington otherwise known as RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force station located beside the village of Waddington, south of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in England.

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Rew Down

Rew Down is a 23.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve located on the south-east edge of the Isle of Wight in the hills to the west of Ventnor.

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Room 40

Room 40, also known as 40 O.B. (old building; officially part of NID25), was the cryptanalysis section of the British Admiralty during the First World War. Y service and Room 40 are cryptography organizations and signals intelligence of World War I.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Sandridge

Sandridge is a village and civil parish between the city centre of St Albans (to the south-west) and Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, England, forming part of the contiguous built-up area of St Albans.

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Saxmundham

Saxmundham is a market town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Shenley Brook End

Shenley Brook End is a village, district and wider civil parish in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, located about north-west of Bletchley, and south-west of Central Milton Keynes.

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Signals intelligence

Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the act and field of intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication (electronic intelligence—abbreviated to ELINT).

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South Walsham

South Walsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Southwold

Southwold is a seaside town and civil parish on the North Sea, in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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St Albans

St Albans is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton.

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Stockland Bristol

Stockland Bristol (formerly Stockland Gaunts) is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, between Bridgwater and the Steart Peninsula.

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Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census.

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Subdivisions of Belfast

The subdivisions of Belfast are a series of divisions of Belfast, Northern Ireland that are used for a variety of cultural, electoral, planning and residential purposes.

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Sutherland

Sutherland (Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Teleprinter

A teleprinter (teletypewriter, teletype or TTY) is an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations.

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U-boat

U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.

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West Kingsdown

West Kingsdown is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England, on the A20 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Swanley, 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of Sevenoaks and from London.

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Whitchurch, Shropshire

Whitchurch is a market town in the civil parish of Whitchurch Urban, in the north of Shropshire, England.

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Winchester

Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.

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Wireless Experimental Centre

The Wireless Experimental Centre (WEC) was one of two overseas outposts of Station X, Bletchley Park, the British signals analysis centre during World War II. Y service and Wireless Experimental Centre are Bletchley Park, cryptography organizations and signals intelligence of World War II.

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