Wonderful book just acquired.

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Wavemeter
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Wonderful book just acquired.

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‘Radio Control for Models’ by George Honnest-Redlich

It’s a mine of information and has the most wonderful diagrams and photos . If I have the opportunity I will scan the whole thing and post on here
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Chatting to Jonathan last night and he remarked that this current Swaffham Skunk Works project has more than a passing resemblance to the Flying Boat on the cover??
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It was a pusher on the book cover Stuart but does look similar.
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Shaun wrote: 22 Jan 2021, 22:08 It was a pusher on the book cover Stuart but does look similar.
Shaun, you do realise us Norfolk lads like a good tractor, non of this pusher nonsense around here!

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In the picture on the book cover it seems that the transmitter was grounded to a stone wall. Was this really done in those days?

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The ground based ED sets did come with a copper earth spike that fixed to the side of the case.
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There was an ED for sale on EBay recently but I missed it. Many many moons ago ( I would have been about 15/16 I saw an old guy with a cabin cruiser model in Blakeney Harbour. It was probably a Aerokits model. It had a small mast with screw in bulbs like navigation lights that signalled to the Operator what instruction had been selected by the button transmitter. I distinctly remember the Red-Brown large box on the ground alongside him on the slipway with its 8’6” aerial and long translucent twin core lamp wire to what appeared to be an old door bell push switch . It was fascinating to watch and I knew then it was very old equipment. It was only years later I realised it must have been an ED set up
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