[CW] Fast Hand Key Sending !!!

[mikea]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:17:04AM +0800, David Ring wrote:
> Here is some fun.
> 
> On this page there are several old recordings made by W1DM, Arthur
> Goodnow who was a Radio Officer, then later ascended to be the head of
> Westinghouse Radio Engineering Department.  I last spoke to him in
> 1988 when he was visiting WBZ in Boston.  As always he was a great
> man.
> 
> Here is the page:
> http://www.n1ea.coastalradio.org.uk/
> 
> Here is the recordings that I especially drawing attention to:
> 
> The 1974 EU recording by W1DM.
> The 1960s-70s recording called "Channel Tea Party" submitted by VA3CH
> - R/O Charles Henry.
> 
> Especially in the 1974 EU recording - PCH must be sending nearly 28
> wpm on a hand key.
> 
> The call signs are easy to recognize:  Look at the ITU prefixes.
> VON is Canada, EJK is Ireland, FFB is France, TAH is Turkey, IAR is
> Italy, CUL is Lisbon, GNI is England, EAP is Spain, etc.
> Some of these are very weak.  WSC is in Tuckerton, NJ - good DX - all
> the way across the pond!
> 
> OST is Belgium, DAN is Germany, PCH (with nice mcw) is Holland, CUG
> however is in the Azores - but it still has a Portugal callsign!
> 
> The last voyage of the "Queen Mary/GBTT" is also very interesting.  By
> the way, Queen Mary is now a Long Beach, CA hotel and the callsign was
> reassigned to the Queen Elizabeth 2 - the Brits often used double last
> letters for the pasenger liners (GBSS was another passenger ship...)
> K, W and N are USA stations and ships.  WCC was in Chatham, MA, WNY
> and WSF were in New York Harbor, WSL was on Long Island, WSC in New
> Jersey.  WOO was 'phone only - and was near WSC in New Jersey - owned
> and run by AT&T.  AT&T charged $15.90 for three minutes of SSB to USA
> telephones.  The CW stations charged about 46 cents per word (up to
> ten letters) - no extra charge for ciphers - Western Union charges for
> International delivery would sometimes be over a dollar a word.  In
> the USA Western Union charged 7-1/2 cents a word - so those overseas
> cables were very expensive at that time as were overseas telephone
> cables.
> 
> 73
> 
> David N1EA

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