“Given the vital importance of radio communications intelligence during the Second World War, there was a need to construct a remote receiving station (RSS) “some distance from the city to permit the reception of signals which otherwise could not be received owing to the high electrical noise level existing in the city of Brisbane”—i.e. weak signals from aircraft and distant transmitting stations. The site also had to be large enough to accommodate receiver aerials. Local paddocks between Beams Road and Roghan Road fit these criteria, so in July 1942 approval was given for the Air Force to take over Resubdivisions 2 and 3 of Subdivision 1 of Portion 6.”1
This RRS was located at 441 Beams Road, Zillmere as this area was then known. The apex of the loop track was just slightly south of where today Silkyoak Circuit and Primrose Street intersect. The bunker would have been in the front yards of 23 and 25 Silky Oak Circuit. Nothing of this structure remains.
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