Two pieces of equipment here (not including the shelf built from a random bit of kitchen worktop and a bit of wood and doing well despite my laughable carpentry “skills”) are made in Britain. (The only two in this entire room :cry:) Who can spot which ones they are?
got this recently to replace my Sony SW-100 (which has the dreaded ribbon cable problem, not only really fiddly to fix the ribbon cables aren’t made any more – apparently they turn up in some CD-ROM drives, so fixing it will have to wait until I next do a PC repair as there is one at work which has busted CDR and possibly the same sort of cable). its a bit bigger but still fits in the bike pannier (a bonus is the sturdy cardboard box it came in is the same footprint as the samsung netbook I use for decoding stuff).
it didn’t have country of origin sticker on it but I telephoned Nasamarine and a chap there said it was still made in Stevenage, as is all their other kit..
Amazing piece of kit for the price (anything better costs as much as a car or ebike, and weighs near as much) – will even pick up VLF transmissions such as MSF (clock) though I have a separate piece of kit for that.
shame about the QRM (interference) where I live though (urban area), garden way too small and UK power networks substation out the back (where all the crap sent down the mains protective ground is radiated into the whole estate) might have to set up a listening post out in the sticks (hence having a portable set is better).
well at least I can still send music down the line after the 4 minute warning has gone off..
Actually I only spy on behalf of the Peoples Republic of Cigarettestan (a remote SE Asian island nation, set up by a mixture of British Asian expats, fishermen and “any rum old bugger who can get a boat there” which operates a policy of “total peaceful warfare”
This means they have relatively friendly relations with their neighbours – other than disputes over the widespread trafficking of contraband (including cheap gaspers), and “stealing” their mail order brides (which in fact is less common nowadays as the blokes end up with post-menopausal SE Asian women and thus having to spend their retirement years doing big DIY projects, and looking after a variety of pets including monkeys and small bears).
Also arranged marriages are still common there as in most parts of the region. So the idea of “peaceful warfare” is every man has to do military national service, but no one actually gets involved in any war or heavy stuff (other than pulling the elderly King Nosmo’s mobility scooter from the ditch, after he ill advisedly derestricted it to 15mph). As Ranjit Arjput Notshuttoff himself said “this way we can be spending our weekends having fun, and escaping nagging from wives and inlaws” (this is important as some chaps have more than one wife, and thus numerous inlaws).
