[CW] Keying a radio with a short-circuited J-38?

[Stan Barr]

On 11/04/2013 17:46, Raymond Lee wrote:
> Actress playing French SOE of WWII in a 2008 French movie “Les Femmes de
> l'Ombre” had shorted the terminals of an American J-38 telegraph key in
> the course keying a wireless set; how could that be as it was not a
> landline closed-circuit system? Click to see the picture:
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/47864282@N02/10674298684/
> 

Nice one!

On this subject, the film "Now It Can Be Told", about WW2 SOE
operations has Jacqueline Nearne MBE and Caption Harry Ree DSO
playing the agents, and as real SOE people they don't make
elementary mistakes like that!

(Film from the Imperial War Museum)

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Cheers and 73,
Stan Barr G0CLV GQRP-3369 FISTS-667  g0clv at dsl.pipex.com

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