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Thread #164671   Message #3944105
Posted By: Rob Naylor
15-Aug-18 - 10:31 AM
Thread Name: Modern(ish) Sailor songs by real salts?
Subject: RE: Modern(ish) Sailor songs by real salts?
The system I used was the third large image down on this page:

Magnavox INS

The woman in the mini-skirt didn't come as standard! The Silent 700 (mis-named!) teletype was my basic workstation. The Satnav receiver is above the tape decks in the left hand rack. I knew Bob Horne very well, and he would often pass programme patches to me over Portishead Radio, to vessel callsign Hotel Oscar 5389:

"0110011, 11001110, 01100110, how copy" ....etc. Sometimes for half an hour, with me reading back each block for confirmation. It would piss off other vessels in the radio queue behind us, I can tell you.

Contrast with the instrument room on a more modern vessel:

Ramform Titan Instrument Room