Orkney Cloud
We used to climb to the top of the radio mast at Warsetter. Some folk would tie rags around the red light at the top to dim it, as a kind of a mark of having been up the tower. The big dishes faced Wideford, in Mainland, in one direction, and other big dishes faced Sumburgh in Shetland. There are many smaller dishes on the mast now, feeding local circuits.
All I remember of Decca is ‘mo-ro-go-po’ which is what the Shipmate receiver display said when it got no reception: Master=0 Red=0 Green=0 Purple=0, I presume. The first time I ever went commercial fishing (1993) the digital Decca navigator onboard was working. I distinctly remember the green glow of the display at night. That was the only time I remember it in use. The other one I remember is that Hifix transmitter stations were manned 24 hours for reliability, so the station minder or minders would live on site, often in a caravan.
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