Re: Receiver R1155L. R42 burnt out.
Athlone Radio broadcast on 567Khz with 100KW from a site to the west of Dublin. It was a prominent European broadcast station aimed, in part, at the ex-pat Irish community.
Coastal Command used Wellingtons, Whitleys and Liberators and as you say, their focus was the north Atlantic, from bases in Ulster, Scotland and the west country. Thus their R1155s would have been particularly susceptible to interference from Athlone. The Liberators were no doubt equipped with US radios.
My father was stationed at an aerodrome in N Ireland for a time, and his twin brother at RAF St Eval in Cornwall, which was a Coastal Command station.
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