Thanks alot for the explaination,Joe.
Yes, it is made by Burndept Co.,'S.A.R.Be.,with voice'.
Therefore its a transceiver,with distress bleeper.
When its on receive without earthing the ant. to the body it
interferes with BBC1 reception.
It was yellow, but has been poorly painted in camo. colours, prob. by
Army.
It has what looks like a small lead acid battery connected, but I cant
get it to charge or work. I use a 9v d.c. supply to work it.
Thanks, Hartly.



Joe McElvenney wrote:
Hi,

If it is a UK SARBE unit made by Burndept, it probably uses a
super-regenrative receiver (i.e. self-oscillating detector) hence
the tendency to pull in frequency. They were designed as a
'downed-airman' distress beacon on 121.5 or 243MHz (usually with
a secondary non-distress channel), where the receive
specification doesn't need to be particularly high and with a low
battery consumption figure.

Horrible things, although I guess they will have saved a good
few lives in their time.


Cheers - Joe