"Torquay" gary(hat)rcrmedical.co.uk wrote in message
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Hi, I live in Torquay and about 2pm i could hear really loud explosions
coming for
what i would say was Dartmoor direction.
I could hear fighter craft then really loud explosions.
This went on for about 30mins or so...

Anyone from this area or indeed on Dartmoor (like Will) hear it?

Gary



I've been in Sussex all weekend. Just got back.
-2C this morning near Crowborough!
Back to Dartmoor in 8C and rain:-(

Will.
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The Army were firing on Salisbury Plain - I suspect you could hear these
guns.


"Andy H" wrote in message
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Torquay wrote:
Just been told by a member on a forum that:
There have been exercises off the coast, because he heard Nav Warnings
being put out, warning of live gunnery practice.
(Nato)


Gary







"Torquay" gary(hat)rcrmedical.co.uk wrote in message
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Thanks for your replies guys, anymore info would be interesting

really want to get to the bottom of this

Gary


"MCC" wrote in message
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Neil wrote:

Les Hemmings wrote:
Torquay wrote:
Hi Les

I have heard this before in the summer, but this time it seemed
pretty
close!
What i would call "Booming" went on for half an hour and the booming
kept coming time and time again.
It was quite frightning at the time i can tell you!

Gary

Yes, a summer thing as i remember. There was even rumours of
submarine
bases being carved out under Berry Head it was so loud, regular and
man
made. A deep, warm, round almost subsonic "whoomfing" taking perhaps
half a
minute to cycle emanating from the sea.

Les
ISTR that there was a VLF station down that way for communicating with
submersed submarines. I wonder if that's where the "whoomfing" was
coming from??????
When I was a Leading Radio Operator in the RN in the early 1960s
stationed
at Whitehall W/T in Admiralty I ran the submarine VLF broadcast. The
transmitter was at Rugby.
As far as I am aware there's no other transmitter in the West Country.

IIRC there was a NATO transmitter at Dounreay, near Thurso, in
Caithness.
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MCC



I can hear a lot for distance explosions to the NNW of Ringwood Hants this
morning.

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