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GBR 16Khz RUGBY RADIO STATION (now dismantled) one of the earliest and most important transmitters ever built for Communications with the British Empire worldwide.

This is the final aerial loading coil windings were made from 3 inch diameter 6500 strand litzendraht wire. The coil was approximately 30 Feet diameter and made from Canadian white maple. The coil has now been purchased by the SCIENCE MUSEUM.

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Beltane Designs
56 Horse Shoes Lane
Birmingham B26 3HY
United Kingdom

Phone 07957 977264

Mobile Phone 07957977264

Email: geoff.beltane@btopenworld.com

About Geoff

My name is Geoff Roberts and I have lived in the heart of England for nearly 6 decades. I have been a Radio Ham operator since my school days over 40 years ago. When I'm not on the ham bands or helping my lovely wife Jen I'm out in my workshop making the next project. I had always been a practical person working with brass, wood and leather and designing things from scratch gives me the most satisfaction. I have been self employed for most of my life earning a living from my craft work. I'm one of the fewer and fewer people these days left it seems taking a pride in handmade things. I be live its very important to keep hold of our traditional skills like Leather woodwork and metal craft and hopefully pass on some of the enthusiasm.

I have always had a fascination for radio since my uncle made a crystal receiver for me when I was eleven years old. It was in an oak box and had a bakelite tuning dial and I could listen to my favorite station Radio Luxemburg on 208 metres medium wave. I listened on a pair of old headphones late at night under the bed clothes when unknown to my parents I should have been asleep. Sadly both the radio station and the old crystal receiver are gone now but the fascination still remains. How is it that you can hear radio stations on a bit of wire and a few electronic components and no power or battery at all? Is it magic, a mystery or something out of the ether waves? Yes its all of those things.

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