Comments on: RAF Chenies Radar Station, Nov-2009

By: Bob Watson

Bob Watson — Fri, 27 May 2011 14:19:41 +0000

I also spent time here as a Junior Technician based at RAF High Wycombe. 1981-1982. I was one of those techies that Ian and his colleagues took to and fro.

By: Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:44:30 +0000

I was an MT driver at High Wycombe in the early 80,s and spent many a time running the “techies” to and fro Chenies for work in a london taxi and having a great lunch at Latimer.

By: Steve Bacon

Steve Bacon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:55:38 +0000

Yeah, I was a techie at Chenies on the HF gear back in the early 80′s. We played Chenies ball, had a gym and a volleyball court on the front car park. There was no Golf ball radar and the Radio Relay mast was still the original wooden mast in my day.
Great times were had at Chenies – the small team of techies were really tight.

By: Grayhame Orlebar

Grayhame Orlebar — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:57:00 +0000

Spent some time here during my last 2 years in the RAF (1994 – 1996) when it was being used as an HF Transmitting station. The old radar rooms had long since been abandoned, and the site was only manned by a handful of personnel. The old “Operations Room” was used by the technicians there to play a game called “Chenies Ball”. There would be a volleyball net across the centre of the room and the game played very much like volleyball, but bouncing the ball off the walls was permitted, and in fact, encouraged! I’m sure some of the old techies could tell you more about this, as I only visited occasionally from nearby RAF High Wycombe.