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That's the reason youse all went mad!
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That must have been a pretty late recording. In the 1960s he would never have got away with sending dreadful morse like that!
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lefo, nearly but not quite, if the tanker went to a NW European port.
One had to be sure of the articles, and agreements, and company contracts, if one was wishing leave?
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And your excuse E-S is?
Some of us are not in asylums. Some others of us have bred. Yet others of us do not imbibe to excess. We are surely all over 30.
Therefore mad, queer or alcoholic by that age is only a guide, not gospel.
(Some of us, of course, do the triathlon).
Some of us are not in asylums. Some others of us have bred. Yet others of us do not imbibe to excess. We are surely all over 30.
Therefore mad, queer or alcoholic by that age is only a guide, not gospel.
(Some of us, of course, do the triathlon).
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Not many of us are employed as telegraphists at GLD. And we would not have been employed as telegraphists at GLD in the 1960s if we had sent Morse like that.
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Sending. Probably. Receiving. That is another question.
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Maybe I have a rose-tinted memory but I always remember GLD and DAN as two MF coast stations where the Morse was always something to be admired.
When arriving from the West, or crossing the Bay homeward bound, GLD's was not necessarily the fastest Morse, but always rock steady, dependable and rhythmic, easily copied through the gabble from French and Spanish stations.
There is an excellent example attached to post #24 here. I don't have any idea of the date but that is the sort of Morse I would recognise as typical GLD.
When arriving from the West, or crossing the Bay homeward bound, GLD's was not necessarily the fastest Morse, but always rock steady, dependable and rhythmic, easily copied through the gabble from French and Spanish stations.
There is an excellent example attached to post #24 here. I don't have any idea of the date but that is the sort of Morse I would recognise as typical GLD.
That reminds me of a chippy saying, "the crack was good, but the wood was rotten".
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Any sensible R/O avoided tankers like the plague. I believe that those unwise enough to sail in them went troppo when up the gulf and emitted on regular occasions morse somewhat similar to the end piece of the GLD TFC list
Any sensible R/O avoided tankers like the plague. I believe that those unwise enough to sail in them went troppo when up the gulf and emitted on regular occasions morse somewhat similar to the end piece of the GLD TFC list
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DAN was a pain in the rear, every time one settled down to some piece and quiet dirty DAN would start blasting away smothering all those poor little frog and belgium stations. Typical german.
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