Chain Home Low

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Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a radar system used by the RAF during WWII. The official designation was AMES Type 2 (Air Ministry Experimental Station). It was based on CD (Coastal Defence) and CA (Coastal Artillery) radar designed for army use. It was noticed that these were able to detect low flying aircraft and so led to the development of CHL for the RAF. It operated on a shorter wavelength than Chain Home, about 1.5 metres.

Later in the war Chain Home Extra Low (CHEL) radar used centimetric radar and was often co-sited with CHL sites.

[edit] List of Chain Home Low sites

• Anstruther, Fife
• Ballymartin, County Down, Northern Ireland
• Bamburgh, Northumberland
• Bard Hill, Holt, Norfolk
• Bawdsey, Suffolk
• Beachy Head, Sussex
• Beer Head, Devon
• Bembridge, Isle of Wight
• Bempton, Yorkshire
• Ben Hough, Tiree
• Bexhill, Sussex
• Blackhead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
• Bolt Tail, Devon
• Boniface Down, Isle of Wight
• Carsaig, Isle of Mull
• Cleadon, County Durham
• Clett, Shetland Islands
• Cockburnspath, Borders
• Cocklaw, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
• Crannoch Hill, Banff, Banffshire
• Creignish, Isle of Man
• Cresswell, Northumberland
• Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty
• Crustan, Orkney Islands
• Deerness, Orkney Islands
• Doonies Hill, Gregness, Aberdeen
• Downhill, County Londonderry. Northern Ireland
• Dunderhole Point, near Tintagel, Cornwall
• Dunnet Head, near Thurso, Caithness
• Dunwich, Suffolk
• Easington^{[disambiguation needed]}, Yorkshire
• Eorodale, Isle of Lewis
• Fair Isle
• Fairlight, Sussex
• Foreness Point, Kent
• Formby, Lancashire
• Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
• Goldsborough, Whitby, Yorkshire
• Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales
• Greian Head, Isle of Barra
• Grutness, Sumburgh, Shetland Islands
• Happisburgh, Norfolk
• Hartland Point, Devon
• Hawcoat, Barrow in Furness, Lancashire
• Highdown Hill, Angmering, Sussex
• Hopton, Norfolk
• Humberston, Lincolnshire
• Hythe, Kent
• Islivick, Isle of Lewis
• Jacka, Portloe, Cornwall
• Kendrom, Kilmaluag, Isle of Skye
• Kete, Dale, Pembrokeshire
• Kilchiaran, Isle of Islay
• Kingswear, Devon
• Poling.
• Swingate, Dover, Kent
• Truleigh.
• Walton.