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Radio Wrangler · 12th Apr 2016, 5:55 pm

I've never seen a redifon 408 in the flesh.

It featured heavily on the cover of the first ever Wireless World I bought. "The Fabulous 408" cried the headline. I'd never come actoss WW before and it was a revelation. I spotted it on the magazine rack at Ryans newsagents, Byram st, Huddersfield, caught the bus home and attacked my piggy bank, and got an advance on the next weeks pocket money. I read the print off that magazine!

But in all the years since and many many amateur radio rallies, I've never seen one. Tons of RA17 family members, R390A, no bother, but never that Redifon I'd memorised.

David

12th Apr 2016, 5:55 pm	#26
Radio Wrangler Moderator Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Fife, Scotland, UK. Posts: 22,899	Re: ISB Receivers I've never seen a redifon 408 in the flesh. It featured heavily on the cover of the first ever Wireless World I bought. "The Fabulous 408" cried the headline. I'd never come actoss WW before and it was a revelation. I spotted it on the magazine rack at Ryans newsagents, Byram st, Huddersfield, caught the bus home and attacked my piggy bank, and got an advance on the next weeks pocket money. I read the print off that magazine! But in all the years since and many many amateur radio rallies, I've never seen one. Tons of RA17 family members, R390A, no bother, but never that Redifon I'd memorised. David __________________ Can't afford the volcanic island yet, but the plans for my monorail and the goons' uniforms are done