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Old 16th Aug 2019, 2:10 am   #4
Graham G3ZVT
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Default Re: Servicing 'Secret Listeners' radios in the 2nd World War

Most Voluntary Interceptors were hand picked from the membership list of the Radio Society of Great Britain, so they were all established radio amateurs or short-wave listeners. Their transmitters would have been impounded at the outset of the war.
These guys would have no need to call out a repairman, many of them would have designed and built their own equipment from scratch. By definition they would have been ineligible for military service, or employed in a reserved occupation, they would only be too glad to "work from home" in this important role, doing what they loved most.
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