What's This Then?

Ah. The Valiant had Orange Putter and Green Satin (?)

Denis, they were the codenames of (then) secret airborne electronic equipment.

Sorry, translation as follows
Search And Rescue And Homing (SARAH) beacons were homing devices inserted in the Mae Wests of aircrew. They had a range of about 85 miles.
Sarbe beacons were a more modern version of Sarah.
These devices needed periodically testing in an environment which did not allow the transmissions to be received and responded to.
ECMs Electronic Counter Measures were specialised and often bespoke radio devices, quite often hand built at RRE Malvern.
Orange Putter was a tail warning system usually fitted in V-Bombers (the other was Red Steer). The tail warning systems were often considered to be more of a reassurance to the pilot than a practical defence if you got a MIG up your tail-pipe.
A Klystron was the device which provided the high power for mainly search radars. The more well-known one was the Magnetron.
RSF was Radio Servicing Flight, normally located in the second line servicing area.

RAF Sealand and RAF Stokeheath before it [24 maintenance unit moved to Sealand about 1958] were Radio/Radar maintenance units and were full of such cages to restrict interference between testing units

SARBE - Search and Rescue Beacon Equipment. And Canberras also had green satin,p ersonally I prefer black satin!

Sniff....I wear regular cotton undershorts.

I was about to leap in and say that Green Satin was too big to fit in Canberras but I would have been wrong, perish the thought .
I went on a Blue Silk/Orange Putter Bomb Con PG course in the latter days of Yatesbury which was a Canberra package. Blue Silk was the miniaturised version of Green Satin.
I looked up a couple of links www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Aircr...erra/Canberra03.html which is a comprehensive spec for IAF
and this gives some idea of size, I cannot believe anyone would want to rebuild an aerial system in their lounge.

I know I'm late at the party but .... nostalgia is addictive.

I was a J/T at Sealand, 2/61 to 4/62 working on SARAH.
After training on Orange Putter and Green Satin at Yatesbury I was posted to Sealand and dropped on the SARAH bench - "read this manual".

Our bench was first on the left in the hanger. First right was row of these cages like the one illustrated. They were a 'secret' and we weren't encouraged to poke around. Allegedly they were being used for the development of SARBE.

We never saw the aircrew component of SARAH and never knew if it was a good system, didn't need to know so didn't get any feedback.

PETERTHEEATER;47073 wrote:

Sniff....I wear regular cotton undershorts.

Would those be the old drawers cellular Peter?