[CW] THE NYMPH AND THE LAMP

[Kate Hutton]

Very, very excellent book!

73 Kate K6HTN

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Joseph L Pontek <v31jp at netzero.com> wrote:

>  Absolutely excellent, David.
>
> It brought smiles and chuckles in remembrance of past experiences.
> I just down loaded the excerpts and may need to buy the book
> *"The Nymph and the Lamp" *now.
>
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> On 3/17/2012 9:26 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>
> A few of the pages that I thought were very interesting from the book Vern
> recommends are posted in this pdf file:
> http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/Raddall_All_Exerpts.pdf
>
> Here's a bit about sending.  Remember we're talking about straight keys
> and the pump handle key is a long lever key used by Marconi Company - the
> PS213A and other keys like it, later the 365 keys.
>
> Here is I hope an interesting bit from that book.  I'm guessing that
> Raddall was imaging Sable Island of the 1930s when he worked there, so
> "the War" was WW1, and the mention of "Olympia" the lead ship of the three
> ships, Olympia, Titanic, and I guess they didn't build the last one because
> of the "iceberg accident" 100 years ago.
>
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