Air Ministry Experimental Station

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For other uses, see Ames (disambiguation).

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

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AMES Type 80, 2.850/3.050 GHz 1 MW S-Band Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Green Garlic
AMES Type 82, 3 GHz 3D Early Warning and tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound - a.k.a. Orange Yeoman
AMES Type 83, 4 GHz/10 GHz mobile tactical control radar for Bristol Bloodhound 1 - a.k.a. Yellow River, Stingray
AMES Type 85, 2.75/3.2 5 GHz, 54 MW - improved high-power version of AMES Type 82 - a.k.a. Blue Yeoman
AMES Type 86, 10 GHz mobile CW target illuminator radar for Bristol Bloodhound 2 - a.k.a. Blue Anchor, Firelight
AMES Type 87, 3 GHz 600 kW - balloon-borne Early Warning radar - a.k.a. Blue Joker
AMES Type 88, 1.3 GHz/3 GHz Tactical Control/Surveillance radar - used in conjunction with AMES Type 89 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger
AMES Type 89, 3 GHz Tactical Control Height Finder - used in conjunction with AMES Type 88 - pair a.k.a. Green Ginger

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[edit] 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