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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: Gino Italy on December 06, 2018, 2325 UTC

Title: Eddystone 830-4
Post by: Gino Italy on December 06, 2018, 2325 UTC

(https://i.imgur.com/1LR0q7D.jpg)

Title: Re: Eddystone 830-4
Post by: Brian on December 07, 2018, 2335 UTC

Gino, I have the 770R Mk11.
Only goes down to 19 Mhz so not a lot of use for HF listening.

Title: Re: Eddystone 830-4
Post by: IQ_imbalance on December 08, 2018, 0410 UTC

DROOL.

Title: Re: Eddystone 830-4
Post by: Josh on December 08, 2018, 1953 UTC

These grand old dames of the airwaves are the raison d'etre radio ops in Brit army service were/are called "scaleys", you know, because of the band scales on the radio.

Title: Re: Eddystone 830-4
Post by: Looking-Glass on December 09, 2018, 0920 UTC

I remember those Eddystone receivers in the ships mess room, officers saloon and the crews rec room in my old merchant navy days... 8)