[CW] "Ida Was a Tramp" by Quinby

[Rich Dailey, N8UX]

Anyone familiar with this book?  Sounds like good reading.

 From http://www.littleriverbooks.com

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"One of the best books I ever read was �Ida Was a Tramp,� written by a radio operator - Cdr. Quinby, who once was employed by the Green Line and Delta Queen Steamboat Company, I believe. In fact, readers of �The Waterways Journal� may recall a feature that Cdr. Quinby wrote for us back in the 1970s. It was about the Civil War and his grandfather. 

Cdr. Quinby was a cw (continuous wave) radio operator on the first American ship equipped with the then-new phenomenon. It still hadn�t been decided whether a Brit or Marconi would get credit for inventing radio. Quinby traveled to Russia by ship in 1917 or 1918 to help bring out refugees fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution. Don�t know where one could find a copy of �Ida� now, unless it would be in a library. It would be worth the search. I guess I say all this, because some of the best people in the world are both boat people and ham operators. "
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And I have to agree with the last statement.

zut de Rich