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Old 15th Jan 2022, 6:23 pm   #1
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Default Radio Caroline "Ross Revenge" radios.

Can anyone identify the particular gear here?

Posted on Twitter, the text says "Peter Philips is live from Ross Revenge on Radio Caroline North at 4.30pm. On 648AM, 1368AM via @ManxRadio, and at http://radiocaroline.co.uk Here he is in the ship’s radio officer’s cabin with ship-to-shore communications transmitters, used when Ross Revenge was a fishing trawler."
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Old 16th Jan 2022, 12:58 am   #2
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Some items such as tuning scales, meters and control knobs suggest Telefunken equipment.

The white ceramic fuses might fit in with this theory.
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Old 16th Jan 2022, 1:09 am   #3
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Regardless!!!, thats a nice bunch, or is it clutch, of electric wirelesses. Compare that photo with the latest digital shyte, and tell me which looks best?. You had to know how to tune them!! it wasnt run by some 32 bit chip the size of a match head.

NICE pic G6

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Old 16th Jan 2022, 11:26 am   #4
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Default Re: Radio Caroline "Ross Revenge" radios.

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Some items such as tuning scales, meters and control knobs suggest Telefunken equipment.

The white ceramic fuses might fit in with this theory.
Given that the "Ross Revenge", originally named "Freyr" was built in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1960 the use of Telefunken equipment seems entirely likely.
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Old 16th Jan 2022, 11:42 am   #5
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Default Re: Radio Caroline "Ross Revenge" radios.

Receivers on the right have similar appearance to this Alamy stock photo of an "Old Ships Radio". Frustratingly, no maker's name but markings in Danish.

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-ol...-92907477.html

I agree that the Transmitter units on the left look Germanic

Vintage around Late 1950's to Early 1960's, but the no-frills functional look is always hard to date.
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Old 16th Jan 2022, 2:07 pm   #6
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Default Re: Radio Caroline "Ross Revenge" radios.

M.P. Pedersen ?

In the style of:

https://digitaltmuseum.no/021028224672/peilemottaker

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/peders...der_a_208.html

Another link to M.P. Pedersen:

http://www.peel.dk/MPP/index.html

then scroll down to:

Katalog fra M.P.P. over radioanlæg

and open the link.

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Old 17th Jan 2022, 9:20 am   #7
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Well done ms660, I think you have clinched it.
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No Problem.

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