The Moggy Van Radio Collection

22/09/2025

Looking forward to an outing at Southwold Railway Trust on Saturday 27th September for their ‘Railways on the Air’ day. Will be there from 13:00 to 16:00 with a selection of Multiband and Shortwave radios. Look forward to seeing you if you are visiting Southwold Railway Station, Blyth Road, Southwold.

12/09/2025

Well we have visited several places this year with the radio collection, and have met many interesting people. I hope to do at least one more show at Southwold Railway’s ‘on the air’ on 27th September when I will load my Short Wave sets along with a few more. This is at Southwold Railway station, Blyth Road, Southwold. This time of year is stationary engine time so we will be out and about doing a few shows with the Morris but with the Petter AP1 and hacksaw instead.
If an opportunity presents itself for another radio show then I will take it.
I haven’t acquired many more ‘Caroline’ sets for a while, until yesterday that is when a nice 1966 KB ‘Commodore’ KR022 arrived. This features Caroline and Radio London as well as Luxy, I’m not sure what ‘afn’ is though, and would be interested to know…..
I have also acquired several ‘Dansette’ type record players and reel to reel tape recorders. If anyone is interested in these and lives close to me in Southwold (IP18 6XL) please let me know. The tape recorders are free to a good home! I can send pictures, there are about ten in all.
Will post some pictures up of the Southwold Station display.
Cheers all.

12/08/2025

Exciting news from the Ross Revenge, off to Lowie soon for much needed inspection and maintenance. Funded by loyal listeners of Radio Caroline, and made possible by Station Manager Peter Moore, the office and marketing team with Paula Shaw, crew of the Ross Revenge John Day, John Pryor and their team, and not least the presenters who give their time and talent free to the station. This is a unique radio station, quite apart from ALL the others.

𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗩𝗘𝗬𝗢𝗥 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗢𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗥𝗬 𝗗𝗢𝗖𝗞 🌊

Today we returned to Ross Revenge with our newly appointed surveyor Scott, who surveyed the ship and gave us his own schedule of work required to ready Ross Revenge to be towed to dry dock.

One of the nine jobs we have to complete is to ensure that the anchor windlass can lower and raise the anchors and chains to hold the ship in case of emergency during the tow. There is no reason why the windlass should not function but some years have passed since we last had to call on it. We also have to ensure our fire-fighting capabilities are on point, over and above our new fire extinguishers. The remaining preparations are simple though laborious. We intend to start working on these on 14 August

📷 Ship surveyor Scott (right)inspecting the engine room on board Ross Revenge today. Pictured with Station Manager Peter Moore

10/08/2025

A great day out on Saturday 9th August at Felixstowe & Offshore Radio’s ‘Radio Gathering’ at Felixstowe Museum. The sun shone, and we met many new friends. Many thanks for the invite!

27/07/2025

A great day out today, with many thanks to the Southwold Boating Lake and Cafe for the use of their space.
Joined today by Brian Ringwood,Shaun Coe, and David Barbrook bringing along some excellent bygone items; Carolyn Hancock , Amanda Hazlett and the Iceni MMOC Branch and Robert Elliott and his Morris Oxford friends for making the trip down from as far away as Doncaster! Also some random classic car friends….many thanks to all those that came along to make the day so enjoyable! Cheers Dave

21/07/2025

We will be out and about at Southwold Boating Lake & Tearoom with the our local Morris Minor Branch (Iceni) and friends, with a selection of radios, reel to reels and record players this Sunday 27th July. Come and say hello if you are around!

18/07/2025

The Moggy will be out soon with the radios on Sunday 27th at the Southwold Boating Lakes, and a couple of times in with Felixstowe & Offshore Radio in August. More nearer the time.
Meanwhile we hope that this one will do well for the Ross Revenge!

10/07/2025

The ‘Caroline’ signs are back on! We are off to ‘Cars on the Green’ at Friston (near Snape) today, may see a few of you there!

08/06/2025

Looking forward to the Bygones Beer and Craft at the Horham Village Show in Suffolk, this Saturday 14th June! (IP21 5DY)
All starts at 10:30 and there are lots of interesting things to see (bygones vehicles engines and collections) for everyone in aid of the Horham Village Community Centre.
We will be there with the Moggy and a selection of 1960’s transistor radios this time. Hoping for a fine day, and looking forward to listening to Paul Brown on RC Player and Caroline North on 648 during the day!
Hope to see you there!

02/06/2025

Well the weather is warming up, and we have been out and about a bit this year, but are looking forward to supporting Felixstowe & Offshore Radio for a couple of events in August, and a few more local shows before that. More details nearer the time. (We also have a few stationary engine rallies to attend to this year as well).
Little trinkets are still being procured from the bay recently, the most recent is a genuine ‘Radio Caroline Club’ badge from the mid sixties, which is now displayed on the Mog as it should be rather than in a box in a drawer somewhere. Also a few more interesting radios, a 1971 ‘Toot-A-Loop’ designed to be worn on the wrist, and more unusual cassette radios. More Grundig ‘Yacht Boys’ as well, my favourite radio from 1970-1972. I keep repairing them but I finally have a good one spare that I can use in the display. If you see one of these going cheap at a car boot….buy it! They are one of the best sounding AM transistor radios ever! I have one waiting for Peter Antony when he comes this way. If anyone is in Southwold on the 27th July 2025 (Sunday) head for the Pier and Boating Lakes, we will be there and if you have a classic car then you would be most welcome to bring that too!
Cheers for now, Dave

09/05/2025

Had a great day yesterday at Sparrows Nest Gardens in Lowestoft at the 80th VE Day celebration. Spent a few hours chatting about the van, Radio Caroline, old radios and so on. Also had a look around the Lowestoft Maritime Museum next to the gardens. Well worth a look if you are in the area. Plenty of parking!
Many thanks to Chris Meek at Lowestoft Town Council for the invite!

https://lowestoftmaritimemuseum.co.uk/

07/05/2025

Something different tomorrow….
We have been asked to display some wartime wireless sets at the 80th VE Day celebrations at Sparrows Nest Gardens in Lowestoft. The event has been organised by Lowestoft Town Council , and is open from 3pm to 9:30pm when the beacon will be lit.
So…I have have selected ten sets and had the polish out.
Pictures to follow after the event!