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April 2025 Issue

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Can You Guess When These Alarms Were Brought Out?

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Can You Guess When These Alarms Were Brought Out?

  • Whilst Dick Walker is acclaimed to producing the first bite alarm, it was in fact his friend Maurice Ingham - but in what year?

  • The Heron: it was Walker’s basic antenna design which was commercially produced by Jack Opie, but in what year?

  • Jumping forward a few decades and there was a large leap in technology with the Optonic. This worked on the principle of a wheel with a paddle attache

  • In what year did Fox launch the Micron SX - their first ever bite alarm?

  • This was the year when Fox launched the Micron DXR. Along with boosting a vast range of sensitivity options due to the new dual technology vibration/r

  • What was the year when Gardner Tackle launched their TLB alarm?

  • Four years after Fox gave their DXR a slight facelift - introducing a new drop back differentiation and power out facility for driving the new and hig

  • Around this time there was a big advancement in technology when it came to bite alarms, such as Solar’s V10 system that used sim cards. When did the

  • During this year, Advanced Tackle Technology’s launched the ATTs system - a totally different concept in as much as the head is silent

  • Steve Neville updated his old head to a MK2 version which allowed you to change the volume and worked with his own remote system, but can you name the

  • Can you remember the now cult classic RX Digital alarms from Fox? Well, there’s now a new alarm worthy of the RX moniker and it’s pretty special t