[ARC5] OT. Battle of Trafalgar. [was ARC5] Ht-4 Query

[Leslie Smith]

  Hi Bill (and others)
  When I was a student the front page from "Time of London" hung on the
  door outside the cashier's office.
  It told about "a great battle" that took place "ten days ago".  It was
  the battle of Trafalgar - 1805.

  The news was carried by pigeon to Portsmouth, and from thence to
  Westminster - by horse.
  The interval between the battle and the result of the battle reaching
  the ears of the PM was 10 days.
  That idea always fascinated me.


  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Thu, Oct 23, 2014, at 22:02, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> That jumped out and slapped me upside the head immediately! The attack 
> at Pearl Harbor came in 1941. Moreover, The Doolittle raid on Tokyo AND 
> the devastating defeat of the Japanese fleet at Midway also came before 
> August of 1942 - in June 1942. I smell a skunk in the woodpile, too. 
> Maybe they used that purloined transmitter to announce V-J day <evil
> grin>.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/23/2014 04:06 AM, AKLDGUY . wrote:
> > The story looks fishy to me for an obvious reason.
> >
> > It says the HT-4 was procured and shipped to Hawaii in August 1942
> > where it was used to transmit the news of the attack.
> >
> > I suppose somebody might have been interested in eight month old
> > news.
> >
> > 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
> >
> 
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