Wick Y station

Wick is in the far north of Scotland

The HRO of the National Radio Company was the most widely used wireless receiver in the British Y stations

Wick Y Station was a British military base . It was five kilometers northwest of the Scottish port town of Wick in the county of Caithness in the far north of Great Britain . During the Second World War , there was an important listening point for the British secret service .

history

During the Second World War, Wick was an important radio direction finding station . It was the most northerly exposed Y station on the British main island and thus a particularly important base for locating enemy radio stations , especially the German submarines operating in the Atlantic . It was located on the Hill of Harland near the village of Reiss not far from the Scottish North Sea coast. After the war, a radar station was built in the same place .

Photo of the air defense wall around the former radio direction finder barrack. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
Situation map Retrieved on March 23, 2017.
RAF Y Section Wick (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017.
Wick Radar Station (English). Retrieved March 23, 2017.
Photo of the site with buildings. Retrieved March 23, 2017.

58.468055555556 -3.1580555555556Coordinates: 58 ° 28 '5 " N , 3 ° 9' 29" W.