[Elecraft] O.T.: End of (another) era

[Dick]

Many years ago a friend and co-worker, now SK, had a qso with an 
Egyptian who was going to be in our city (then) on business so they 
arranged a meeting for coffee, and I was invited.  He told of one 
country in that region  where messages were by telegraph only, and a 
person in the hotel would pass them to a guest by saying the dots and 
dashes. (Try copying like that.) He said there were only seven hams in 
Egypt at the time.

Dick, n0ce



------ Original Message ------
From: "Ron D'Eau Claire" <ron at cobi.biz>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: 7/14/2013 6:31:05 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] O.T.: End of (another) era
>Not exactly radio, but communications history. The headline reads:
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>Telegrams STOP: End of service delivering joy and heartache
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>The last telegrams are being sent in India. Story here:
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>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23271384
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>Bulbul Tewari, 73, is filling in forms to send telegrams to her four
>grandchildren, aged between seven and 14, "so that when they are older, 
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>realise that this is the way messages were sent, once upon a time".
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>73, Ron AC7AC
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