Mention of Consul brought back memories. Even though the standard NATO phonetic alphabet was well established long before I started nav training, Bush Mills (c/s MWN) was still invariably referred to as Mike Willie Nan. And if my memory of the morse code is now a little shaky, I am sure I will know that FRQ is dit dit dah dit/dit dah dit/ dah dah dit dah to my dying day because of the number of times I tuned in Ploneis.
(Oh and Stavanger was LEC, as I recall)
I never flew on Brits other than as pax, but on Victors, once over the sea we had even fewer navaids. Our H2S radar was of no assistance once out of range of land, the Green Satin tended to trip out over water, so we were left with astro and not much else. On one occasion, however, two Victors (four navs between us) took a Jaguar across the pond and we had the luxury of asking the Jaguar pilot for fixes from his INS
How embarrassing
