{"id":268,"date":"2018-01-20T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T09:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:13:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:13:19","slug":"roberts-rambler-radio-at-her-majestys-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/roberts-rambler-radio-at-her-majestys-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts Rambler Radio at Her Majesty&#8217;s Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-1022x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-768x769.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1739-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/>Roberts Radio&#8217;s have held a Royal charter for many years, and rightly so. This has nothing to do with the fact that the Rambler model was the only radio which inmates of her majesty&#8217;s prisons were allowed to have.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first reason for this was the absence of a telescopic aerial. Lethal weapon in the wrong hands. No mains lead was another reason. Again, lethal weapon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1743-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1743-300x176.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1743-768x450.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1743-1024x600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Prison officers radio used to operate in the VHF band, so a medium and long wave only radio was a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>The final reason cited was a double edged sword. The Rambler has an easily removable base to access the battery.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1744-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1744-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1744-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1744-1024x613.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/BILD1744-2000x1200.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While this\u00a0 made the radio easy to search for contraband without damaging it, the battery in question is a large 9V item called a PP9. It&#8217;s heavy. In the end of a sock swung hard at your head it&#8217;s very very dangerous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts Radio&#8217;s have held a Royal charter for many years, and rightly so. This has nothing to do with the fact that the Rambler model was the only radio which inmates of her majesty&#8217;s prisons were allowed to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-portable","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wiredwood.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}