[SOC] Book of Sea Stories, "Sparks, what's going on?"

[Ian C. Purdie]

Richard Brunner wrote:

> On February 1'st, 1999, radio-telegraph service on board ships was ended.
>  The radio officers were no longer needed and left the ships, and the
>  majority of coast-stations stopped their services. The grand era of the
>  transmission of messages by Morse code had lasted almost 100 years .

My old [SK] father, a former Wireless Telegraphist from the WW1 era, has been
rotating in his grave ever since. He'd say: "Pure Heresy"


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33�14', E151�34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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