We have just had the reply from MoD ISS-Secretariat, following the email to Sir Michael Fallon. They got the Contracted Service, Babcock International, to test the transmission, and they report everything is Ok... 'The transmission is fully audible without interruption'.
So there we are... Its all Ok...
Tuned it in again on 5450 kHz, and you guessed it... First word still clipped... '*****ster at time 1200.. etc'. Well we tried !
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