Cheers for that. I've used them "at work" and was told they were worth ?5k each if we lost them ! I know we once managed a 3 way conversation bewteen Glasgow, Cyprus and Belize, which was fun. Mostly we used them to get World Service when overseas.
....the real hoot was when I was told I had to keep one in my LR "for emergencies" while deployed with the yanks for 6 months. No way to recharge the battery, no access to the current frequencies or any chance of replen on the current encryption......but the book said we had to have a radio. I backloaded it as a waste of time !
The same site is also flogging off a load of VHF radios - its the Army getting rid of the "Clansman" series of radios as "Bowman" is introduced..... I remember Clanman coming in, so I must be getting old !
