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Originally Posted by bluepilot
I can't remember exactly when I used to listen to the shipping forecast. I vaguely remember that it was on just before "Listen With Mother" and I always heard the tail end whilst waiting for Daphne Oxenford.
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Yes, me too, when I was 7, at boarding school, on a Bush DAC90A in the hall.
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"
Yes, it's still on the air as Shannon VOLMET with a computer's voice, but in my day it was real people at all hours of the day and night.