AIR MINISTRY EXPERIMENTAL STATION

'AMES' or 'Air Ministry Experimental Station' was the way of identifying RAF radar types during and after World War II

★ AMES Type 1, Chain Home (CH) - Early Warning

★ AMES Type 2, Chain Home Low (CHL) - Early Warning, LOW altitude

★ AMES Type 3, Type 1 and Type 2 operating in close proximity

★ AMES Type 4, Overseas Chain Home, also known as Intermediate CO or CO/ICH

★ AMES Type 5, Chain Overseas Low (COL)

★ AMES Type 6, Light Warning Set

★ AMES Type 7, Final static GCI station (Happidrome)

★ AMES Type 8, Various marks of GCI radars, mobile and semi-static

★ AMES Type 9, Mobile Chain Home

★ AMES Type 10, Mobile Air Transportable System

★ AMES Type 11, Mobile sets as possible standby should 1.5 m CHL/GCI be jammed

★ AMES Type 12, Low Frequency transportable Chain Home Low.

★ AMES Type 13, 10 cm "Nodding" Height Finder. Transmitter and Receiver of Naval Type 277

★ AMES Type 14, 10 cm surveillance radar

★ AMES Type 15, GCI radar, mobile version of Type 7

★ AMES Type 16, Fighter Direction Station

★ AMES Type 17, Fighter Direction (abandoned)

★ AMES Type 18, CHL/GCI Modified Type 11 Mk2 (H) with height finding (abandoned)

★ AMES Type 19, GCI Final Standby Type

★ AMES Type 20, Decimetric Height Finder

★ AMES Type 21, Tactical Control. Five vehicle GCI convoy

★ AMES Type 22, GCI / COL (similar to AMES Type 11)

★ AMES Type 23, LOMAN Overseas LORAN system

★ AMES Type 24, Long range 10 cm Height Finder

★ AMES Type 25, Experimental CHL

★ AMES Type 26, GCI British version of American MEW (Microwave Early Warning)

★ AMES Type 27, Air Transportable GCI

★ AMES Type 28, CMH Air transportable Height Finder

★ AMES Type 29, CHEL (Chain Home Extra Low) Air transportable (abandoned)

★ AMES Type 30, CD (Coast Defence) / CHL (Admiralty only)

★ AMES Type 31, CHEL CD in wooden hut

★ AMES Type 32, CHEL CD - Nissen hut - none built

★ AMES Type 33, CHEL CD - brick built

★ AMES Type 34, CHEL CD 200 ft tower

★ AMES Type 37, CHEL CD

★ AMES Type 40, CD/CHL

★ AMES Type 41, CHEL

★ AMES Type 42, CHEL

★ AMES Type 43, CHEL

★ AMES Type 44, CHEL

★ AMES Type 46, CHEL

★ AMES Type 47, CHEL

★ AMES Type 48, CHEL

★ AMES Type 50, CHEL

★ AMES Type 7000, 30-60 Mhz Hyperbolic navigation system - GEE ground station

★ AMES Type 9000, Transponder-based navigation system - Oboe ground station

Contents

Post War

See also

References

Post War

★ AMES Type 80, 2.850/3.050GHz 1MW S-Band Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Green Garlic

★ AMES Type 82, 3GHz 3D Early Warning and tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound - a.k.a. Orange Yeoman

★ AMES Type 83, 4GHz/10GHz mobile tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound 1 - a.k.a. Yellow River, ''Stingray''

★ AMES Type 85, 2.75/3.25GHz, 54MW - improved high-power version of AMES Type 82 - a.k.a. Blue Yeoman

★ AMES Type 86, 10GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, ''Firelight''

★ AMES Type 87, 3GHz 600Kw - balloon-borne Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Blue Joker

★ AMES Type 88, 1.3GHz/3GHz Tactical Control/Surveillance radar - used in conjunction with AMES Type 89 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger

★ AMES Type 89, 3GHz Tactical Control Height Finder - used in conjunction with AMES Type 88 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger

See also

★ Telecommunications Research Establishment

★ Royal Radar Establishment

★ Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

★ Signals Research and Development Establishment

References

★ Bragg, Michael., ''RDF1 The Location of Aircraft by Radio Methods 1935-1945'', Hawkhead Publishing, Paisley 1988 ISBN 0-9531544-0-8 The history of ground radar in the UK during WWII

★ Latham, Colin & Stobbs, Anne., ''Radar A Wartime Miracle'', Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud 1996 ISBN 0-7509-1643-5 A history of radar in the UK during WWII told by the men and women who worked on it.

★ Radar Types