Ahhhh yes the valvey thing's, I remember they lit up and glowed blue if driven hard + lots of heat!! So WW11 kit should better then.
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Does any one fly with the squelch control open? this should be set to just close the noise gate on the Rx. extremely tiring to have the background Rf. noise all the time, I would have thought if one ground station is clear & you are being read by same, the fault is most likely to to be station not your radio or head set, the impedance will not change from station to station.
As for old kit I can believe that, reading about lack of helicopters, body armour, ECM Kit (see Page 14 sept 19th Independent
A really sad report & if the reporting is correct a grave indictment of the MOD\ government ) + the government treatment of the Gurkha's.
Now really depressed
perhaps the gripe\grape will make things better