[CW] Sparks wha´ts going on?

[uranito]

On February 1'st, 1999, radio-telegraph service on board ships was ended.
The radio officers were no longer needed and left the ships, and the
majority of coast-stations stopped their services. The grand era of the
transmission of messages by Morse code had lasted almost 100 years .

Former German ship's radio officer Sylvester Föcking (DH4PB) distributed
more than 700 copies of his CD-album "Radio Telegraphy Worldwide News." In
many letters the OM's confessed that they listened to the recordings with
"tears in their eyes," and raved about the tremendous periods of this
profession.

To prevent oblivion of a total profession, he - together with ex-colleagues
Rolf Marschner (DL9CM) and (Dutchman) Hans Polak (NL 9694 and ex-PCH)
collected funny, sad and unbelievable stories of colleagues from all over
the world to publish them - after 11/2 years - in a book, titled:

"Sparks what's going on?"

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Best regards

Alberto LU1DZ