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Old 10th Mar 2018, 12:27 pm   #20
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Default Re: Racal RA17

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Originally Posted by Nymrod121 View Post
Some photos of a 'loop' (?collective noun?) of RA17s plus a few others.
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With all those blank panels above and below in the first pic, I think I might have arranged at least 1U between lower and upper receivers! Are they panoramic displays with small screens associated with each receiver? I wondered how much of that lot ended up as landfill or smelter-fodder, such is the way of the professional world.

I was curious if it was a chart-recorder above the foreground BRT400 in the second shot, but it might just have been a pasty-warming shelf. I recall professional outfitters offering 19" rack-mount microwave (cooker, not TX/RX devices) metalwork and even wine racks!
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