P&O Fastcat this is Nimrod Aircraft

iangrant

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Last week crossing the channel on Ch 16 we heard "FastCat this is Nimrod aircraft" - channel 10 please - - then "for your information we would like to take pictures of you as part of an exercise".

P&O replied but the Nimrod didn't hear them!

Various attempts to communicate followed with lots of "nothing heard" from P&O.

So much for the fine communications of the RAF!!

Ian
 

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you can have the finest comms in the world, but if who you are trying to talk to aint listening, .....its about as much use as a handbrake on a canoe........keith
 

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Out of interest, I thought that marine radio aerials were designed to radiate the signal horizontally, not vertically. Maybe the Nimrod should have come down lower to pick up the response?

Of course we would then have postings saying "I was buzzed by a Nimrod the other day"!

Joe
 
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