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Old 3rd Dec 2017, 4:44 pm   #34
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Default Re: 150 years of the Shipping Forecast

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Originally Posted by rambo1152 View Post
I later became fascinated by the aviation equivalent of the Shipping Forecast,
Shannon Air Radio on 5505kHz, with it's equally cryptic phrases like "CAV-OK", "NO SIG" "Tempo", QNH, and "Four octa cumulonimbus at 1000 feet"
I was similarly addicted to Gander Radio [Canada] on 13.272MHz. I'd leave a receiver idling on that frequency and if I could hear Gander I knew the path on 14MHz was probably open to North America.
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