Robert in mid Wales has two receivers he wishes to go to a good home free of charge due to age and health issues. The 940 was purchased off EBay in 2019 and is in nice condition and has the speaker mounted in the cabinet. It had been restored by the previous owner. The 840A is a bit scruffy and has had some work done on it including a new set of valves. The sets appear to work but Robert has not been able to fully check them out. You would have to collect these from Robert’s home in Llanbrynmair, Powys (SY19).

If  you wish to take up this generous offer of Robert’s then please contact him via e mail  at robert.reay@btinternet.com 

Arthur Edwards G6XJ joined Stratton & Laughton’s Radio Section in its very early days. Arthur was a radio amateur and eventually became Commercial Director and General Manager. During his war service he served in the Fleet Air Arm. We published a post in January 2016 of a picture of Arthur in his radio shack in 1929 (from Short Wave Magazine,  January 1949- see below). Arthur left the company when it was purchased by Marconi in the 1960’s.

Last week on E Bay I noticed a QSL card from G6XJ for sale which I purchased for the princely sum of £2.50. The card is for a QSO in November 1950 with G3DOE (Thanet Radio Society) on 80m band. The radio company had the call sign G6SL from the early 20’s and I took over the registration of this call for Eddystone Radio when Managing Director in the 80’s and still have it.

Andrew Van Tilburg in Melbourne Australia has created dial artwork for the Eddystone 730/4. There are two files:

1. A Visio file which will need to be unzipped. Download and
2. A pdf file for those who don’t have Visio. Download 

To view the Visio files you will need the later version of Microsoft Office Visio

In our For Sale and Wanted section we warn users to be aware of the danger of being scammed when buying or selling Eddystone equipment. It has been many years since we heard of anyone being scammed but it looks as if someone has recently suffered such an event. A genuine user requested, through the Wanted section, for Eddystone 750 parts and was offered a complete 750 for US$150 from the USA. The payment included shipping to Australia and payment was made via Paypal to someone of a different name to the seller (warning bells?). The seller sent a copy of the waybill which the purchaser now believes to be a fake. The seller is not answering e mails and the purchaser is trying to reclaim a refund from Paypal.  These are semi-sophisticated scams and given that any sale or purchase is done on trust they are easy to fall prey to. When purchasing from unknown or non-verifiable parties (callsigns are verifiable) always ask to see proof of the existence of the materials (lots of photos so not just “library” shots). Ask questions which only an owner is likely to know and of course deal through someone like Paypal where you can register a complaint, (not Western Union) and only to the account of the seller. If you have doubts ask on the Groups.io forum if anyone has dealt with that seller/purchaser before. As the innocent party says  “Caveat Emptor”.

Gerry has been back to his store of Eddystones and has brought out his S830/4 receiver which had already been the subject of several restorations. Here he brings it back up to specification with a thorough check-over and change of some components. You can read about it here Download 

Gerry O’Hara VE7GUH has been back to his store to bring his 680/2 back out for a Restoration ” MOT ” in this new article download article

Following his recent article on the fitting a 500kHz Crystal Calibrator in an Eddystone S940, Gerry has gone a bit further and fitted a Digital Frequency Meter. You can read about it here Postscript to Installing Xtal Calibrator in S940

Following a house move Gerry O’Hara VE7GUH got his S888A Amateur band receiver out of store and decided to give it the once over. When he bought it some years earlier from a UK ham he didn’t even give the set his usual thorough check-out as it was in very good cosmetic condition and performed well. As a consequence he never wrote an article on it for the Restoration section of our website. Well he has given it a thorough check out and written it for us to enjoy.Eddystone S.888A Revisited

Following a request from John G8GMB, Ian Nutt M0ECQ  has found manufacturing information on the Mains Filter Unit Model 732 which was designed specifically to reduce interference on board ship where the sparking at the dynamo commutator was notoriously ‘dirty’. Intended especially for the AC/DC sets model 670 and 670A . You will find this in the Technical/Service Manuals folder under Accessories.

Gerry O’Hara shows you how to install the 500kHz calibrator for an Eddystone 730/4 into an S940 he was working on. The S940 has reasonable scale accuracy, claimed to be 0.5% on all ranges in the specifications – sounds ok, but that’s 150KHz at 30MHz, so it would be useful to have a calibration signal (‘pip’) to inject when needed. 500KHz crystal calibrator in an Eddystone S940