At long last my book about the history of GKA has been published and will be available for purchase in the next few weeks. Running to 320 pages, it contains details of the station's development from its beginnings at Devizes in 1920 to closure in 2000. The war years are covered in detail along with the expansion of the station in the 1940s and 1980s. Many recollections of staff and sea-going R/Os are included, along with a chapter describing life at the station. Many of the 'characters' are fondly remembered. Annexes with brief details of the associated transmitting and receiving stations are appended, as well as a history of the morse keys used at the station.
The book will retail at £9.99 and will be available from Amazon and other online retailers, and signed/dedicated copies will also be available via the GKA website as soon as they arrive. Postage and packing will need to be added for website orders but this price will be kept to a minimum.
As soon as I am able to take payment I will let everyone know.
Excellent news Larry. I will certainly be purchasing a copy. I would imagine a lot of ROA members would be interested as well. If you send me details when you have them I will arrange to have information published in the next QSO in September.
Yes of course, I will let the ROA know as soon as the book is available to purchase. I would anticipate this to be around 3 weeks or so, depending on the publishing schedule.
Been advised this morning that the book is currently #1 in the Amazon Best-Selling Charts in the Telecommunications Genre - just on pre-orders. Waterstones are now stocking the book as well, again taking pre-orders. I am waiting for my own personal stock to arrive and then I will start taking orders for signed copies.
No plans at the moment - possibly an e-book or Kindle version in the future dependent on sales. Could do an audio book myself if you could handle my broad Bristolian accent.....
I once sailed with a Captain who had a pad of Received Marconigram forms in his desk drawer.
He occasionally would type out a "received" message and leave it on his desk for the 2nd steward to read and hence start a rumour running.
After being advised by the 2nd steward one day that we had orders to discharge not in NW Europe but N America I had a chat with the mate who covertly removed the pad from the desk drawer and I locked all my forms away.
Nothing was ever mentioned .........
Hi David. The post in this country is very erratic at the moment. I only just received my QSO five days after another member who lives in Essex. Give it a bit longer and if nothing lands then we will send you another.
Greetings Larry,
Just ordered the Book through the above link. Looking forward to receiving my signed copy and re living some of the memories from a time passed. Best of luck with book.
Regards,
Pat.
For those intending to order their book through the GKA website, there was a glitch which prevented overseas orders from applying the correct postage rate. Therefore I have removed the automatic link to PayPal to allow prospective purchasers to use the correct tariff.
Costs have not changed - just an extra step or two in the ordering process.
Thank you all for the astounding response - over 80 pre-orders via the website alone over the last 24 hours!
You'll get one of the rare unsigned copies! Can't compete with that price at UK postage rates, it costs more than the price of the book to send a copy outside of Europe, even at printed paper rate.
Stock copies of the GKA book have arrived. They will be signed and despatched over the next few days. Thank you all for your patience!
Larry +
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