SHIPS LIFEBOAT RADIO

The one time I tried a float test, it didn't and is probably still on the bottom of Kingston harbour. Didn't it have a telescopic mast that you could rig the wire aerial on? (I think that's a piece of it in the background.)

Yes it did have a telescopic mast - in a plastic bag inside the lid I think. If you tested it every week (like you were supposed to) you got to know where to put the headphones so that the lid would close.

John T.

In memory of the Instructor at London, when trying to get us to learn about this piece of machinery;-
FART MRS R.
As I recall, Frequency, Auto Red, Transmit, maunal (could have been morse, I have been asleep since then),Recieve, send and Recieve, or something like that. No doubt one of you RO types will put me right.
Anyway, it was a lot better than the bigger dustbins I was used to.
There was another saying he used as well, but thats long been filed in time.

Enri