The ROYAL SIGNALS CONTACT site http://www.royal-signals.org.uk/database/home.php includes data sheets, Newsletters, a Members' area, lists of radio sets used during World War 2, Q and Z Codes, Visual Signalling, Datasheets, RSA and AFS.

The Birgelen Veterans Association website is primarily for the benefit of its members. It facilitates contact between all those who served with: 1 Wireless Regiment, Munster, 13th Signal Regiment (Radio) Birgelen and their sub-units. Membership of the association is open to all personnel who served, of all Corps and Agencies, regardless of rank or gender. It exists to imbue the family tradition of the Regiment and to render support as best it can.

The aim of The Swanage Railway Mercury Group is to encourage the bond of friendship between members of The Group and to promote the Swanage Railway, and in particular Exercise Topham Hatt, both in kind and in practice whenever possible.
The Swanage Railway is situated in the county of Dorset, in an area of outstanding natural beauty known as the Isle of Purbeck (actually a peninsula). There are two main towns, Swanage on the coast and Wareham ten miles away to the north-west. A branch line to Swanage from Wareham was opened in 1884, with one intermediate station serving the village of Corfe Castle.
The Topham Hatt series of exercises has become an on-going Corps project since its inception back in 1984. The Armed Forces as a whole have supported the Railway project in a number of different areas but the Royal Corps of Signals has made by far the largest contribution. Many different units and hundreds of soldiers have visited the Railway and formed part of the unique relationship.
Work undertaken by Royal Signals tradesmen has mainly supported the Railway’s Telecom Department. In 1984 fifteen soldiers from 30th Signal Regiment retrieved 30 miles of redundant cable form the Mid-Hants Railway at Alresford and installed much of it at Swanage during a four week exercise called EX CYGNET TRAIN. The Telephone Exchange at Corfe Castle was a major installation by troops from Northern Ireland in 1990. All equipment associated with the exchange was commissioned, together with the underground cable link from Harman’s Cross and the local pole route within the station limits.

Thanks entirely to the efforts of Bill, VE7DGM The Ex D Association now has its own Web Site. Those of us who served in Germany after WW2 are much benefited by this Association, the brainchild of John Hawkins, VK6HQ/G3LXD/DL2XH (RAFARS 4125 - RNARS 1172 - XDC 002).
Visitors to THE Ex-D ASSOCIATION WEBSITE will see that there are aight areas: Home, Contacts, Members Area, Lost and Found, History, Links, Photo Album and Web Master. Only Ex D Assocation Members may enter the Members' Pages area - this is to protect the personal documents we have within that Area, namely The membership List, Looking for Old Comrades List, back issues of "As You Were!!" (AYW) our twice yearly newsletter and, shortly, The D List (containing over 500 names and/or call signs of those British and Allied service personnel in Germany post WW2 and associated with amateur radio).

Visit the ROYAL SIGNALS MUSEUM web site and other MUSEUMS of Military, Aviation and Navy interest.

JIMMY IN BUSINESS (JIB) has its aims and organisation fully set out on this growing Web Site. "H" Wells is the Webmaster from whom further information can be obtained.
Jimmy in Business is a growing association of former members of the Royal Corps of Signals now working in Industry. It is a non profit-making, voluntary organisation whose livelihood is solely dependent upon the goodwill and active participation of its current membership. Objectives include facilitating networking with former colleagues currently in similar areas of business, notwithstanding commercial confidentiality, providing a base for business and personal opportunities, social intercourse and the exchange of views and information on communications and information systems.
Coupled with acting as a platform from which currently serving members of the Corps can inform themselves about current industrial practice, organisations and opportunities through networking and advice from former colleagues who are currently active in Industry there is the beneficial cognisance of prospering the Corps family throughout Industry and providing a platform for the continuation of the camaraderie and social life afforded by the Corps.

ROYAL SIGNALS own CORPS' PAGES detail their structure and many more aspects of the Corps.

Visit the Garats Hay Internet Site [the home of the 'Y' (Wireless Intercept) Services] which has much to commend it................ ............and of course BEAUMANOR is not to be missed by those in the know!

THE BEVERLEY BOYS' ARCHIVE is currently on the Web for ex-Members thereof. This web site is an archive dedicated to those young "boys” aged between fourteen and seventeen and a half years, who enlisted into the British Army and served as Regimental Boy Soldiers in the Royal Corps of Signals. Some familiar names appear under "Personalities" !

The website of Bill, G4KKI is dedicated to the JUNIOR LEADERS REGIMENT, Royal Corps of Signals, which was based at Rawlinson Barracks (more commonly known as Denbury Camp). He was there from January 1964 to May 1966 and passed out as a BIII Radio Operator then posted to 257 Signal Squadron in BAOR. The website contains many photographs from as early as the late 1950's to closure.(in 1967) and they also have an email group hosted by Yahoo and have over 100 members consisting of ex-Boys and also a few ex-staff. They welcome anyone who served at Denbury.

THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION now has its own place on the Web. This includes a facility for former Servicemen and Servicewomen to trace former comrades and provides much detail as to RBL forthcoming events, including visits to overseas War Graves.

The official website of the Radio Officers' Association provides you with a portal to a wide variety of information about marine and aeronautical radio communications - past and present. Its main purpose, however, is to provide an introduction to the Association which exists to ensure that the work, life and times of the Marine, Aeronautical, Coast Station and Clandestine Radio Officer are not forgotten.
And http://www.roassn.org/ will tell you all about "the lifesaving frequency of 500kc/s" and the involvement of the Association.

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS are the Order of the Day, medallists to The Royal British Legion AWARD PRODUCTIONS LTD, PO Box 300, Shrewsbury, SY5 6WP - Telephone 01952 510053 - explain all on their web site including the availability of those for Malta, Merchant Navy, Arctic Campaign, Normandy Campaign, National Service, Allied ex-POW, Bomber Command, Restoration of Peace, Suez Canal Zone, various ties, colour pictures of all, the Ministry of Defence Directive as to the wearing of commemorative medals, details of the full size medals, miniatures, ribbons etc. You can also contact them by e-mail.

Although severe critics describe the site as “tedious and unimaginative” and smacking of bureaucracy, the presence of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is appealing to many in this world of continued belligerence and hostilities. The pages are linked to all the expected other Organisations, including the UK Ministry of Defence, the Council of Europe, the European Union, and the Interallied Confederation of Reserve Officers,. You have the opportunity “To receive on a regular basis all the latest news from NATO, as well as other NATO Agencies and Commands, or information on NATO's scientific and environmental programmes, please subscribe to one of our e-mailing lists, free of charge” - there are pages on OPERATION Allied Force, OPERATION Joint Guardian, and a complete archive of all official documents and general and specific NATO publications together with a considerable database of information. The updating is extremely well maintained.

The official website of the Security Service (MI5). "The Security Service is the UK's security intelligence agency. Its purpose is to protect national security from threats such as terrorism, espionage and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, to safeguard the economic well-being of the UK against foreign threats, and to support the law enforcement agencies in preventing and detecting serious crime."  The site contains areas on the Law, Myths and Misunderstandings, Intelligence Work and a Brief History as well as other interesting topics. On the other hand MI6 The Secret Intelligence Service, came into being in 1911 to undertake espionage activities overseas. Today its role is defined by the Intelligence Services Act 1994 as "to obtain and provide information relating to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands, and perform other tasks relating to these in relation to the interests of national security".

The Website entitled 64 Baker Street and SOE is also in a similar field and a visit is quite interesting.

The very mention of Violette Szabo brings to mind a very wealth of connections - Odette, Noor, SOE, Resistance, Special Forces and much more - all to be found on the extremely informative website of WARNER BROS the film makers.

Our Museums Page (accessed from item 7 on the Home Page Index) thoroughly covers BLETCHLEY PARK in all its well-deserved glory but you can take a short cut from here. Also there is a BLETCHLEY PARK GROUPS web site which is separate from the main BP one.

In the context of Bletchley Park it is difficult to avoid references to the late Alan Turing - an important figure in the computer revolution. His story and involvement are well-known but recently a considerable amount of his original papers (held at King's College, Cambridge) has been made available on the Internet in a joint-funded project by the IEE, the Department of Electronics & Computer Sciences (University of Southampton) and the British Computer Society. There are high quality images and a very efficient search facility. THE TURING ARCHIVE is a "must" for students and historians alike.
N.B. At the moment you can view documents but not print them. Printing will become available soon.

Former Secret Service Chief to be BP Heritage Advisory Panel Chairman - Released : Dec 1, 2005
Sir Richard Dearlove, Former Secret Intelligence Service Chief, to be Bletchley Park Heritage Advisory Panel Chairman.
The Bletchley Park Trust today announced that Sir Richard Dearlove KCMG OBE MA has been appointed Chairman of the Bletchley Park Heritage Advisory Panel. The Panel’s role is to provide top level strategic advice on development plans for Bletchley Park.
Sir Richard is currently Master of Pembroke College, founded in 1347 and the third oldest college in Cambridge. It was at Queens’ College Cambridge, from which he graduated, that his potential for the intelligence service is thought to have developed and in 1966, Sir Richard began his career in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Postings have included Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington, where he was Head of Station. Sir Richard became Director of Personnel and Administration in 1993, Director of Operations in 1994 and Assistant Chief of SIS in 1998. In 1999, he succeeded Sir David Spedding as ‘C’, shorthand for Chief of Service since the agency’s founder Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming.

Always worth a visit, whether or not you are a member of it is THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (the IET) - formerly THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS - the change of name took place on 31st March 2006 and at the same time accepted into their organisation was the Institution of Incorporated Engineers.

The INVICTA MILITARY VEHICLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY (IMPS) held its inaugural meeting in the TA Drill Hall in Maidstone in 1980 with 65 potential members attending. Today the membership, extending throughout the United Kingdom, Europe and Scandinavia and the USA, totals over 1,000. The Society has a wide range of vehicles from Jeeps to tanks and issues a Magazine IMPRINT and a monthly newsletter. There are monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month at The Hop Farm Country Park, Beltring, Kent and new members are always welcome. The Society has many interesting items and links on their Web Site. Further details are available from Rex Cadman, The Old Rectory, Sandwich Road, Ash, Canterbury CT3 2AF.
Our Member Mike, G3GWD was present at the War and Peace Show on 23/25 July and had his trusty B2 transceiver operational - the illustrated story is on our SHOWS and RALLIES PAGE.

The Radio Society of Great Britain's site contains much of interest to all radio amateurs, including a transcript of the weekly News Bulletins, licensing matters, and so on.

RAYNET have their Home Page on Internet.

RADIO AMATEUR INVALID & BLIND CLUB (RAIBC) are on the Web.

Who better to advise than the RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS AGENCY: currently you can mail their Information and Library Service at Wyndham House, 189 Marsh Wall, London E14 9SX, telephone them on 020 7211 0211, but at the end of December 2003 their functions and powers transfer to the new media and communications regulator Ofcom (the Office of Communications). Wireless Telegraph Act licences will be issued by Ofcom w.e.f. end December 2003. Ofcom's Contact Centre will operate from 8 December 2003, their HQ will be at Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA (Tel: 0845 456 3000) and the website at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk

The Centre for the History of Defence Electronics (CHiDE) was established in 1995 to record, preserve and disseminate information about the developments in electronics particularly during the nineteen thirties, forties and fifties.
In August 2002 the Centre ceased to operate as a separate research unit within the University of Bournemouth; its ongoing research activity has been subsumed into the Oral History Research Unit.
The Friends of the Centre have reformed into the Defence Electronics History Society - DEHS. All the events and activities associated with the former 'Friends' continues under the auspices of the DEHS.
Much concentration and focus so far has been given to radar and radio communications during the Second World War, though this in no sense limits the Centre's interest in subject matter or time.

The ARRL are to be found on the Internet as are the DARC (the Deutsche Amateur Radio Club). If you plan foreign holidays with amateur radio perhaps you should also go to The CEPT Amateur Radio Club pages for information.