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On 25/12/2008 at 09:47 [email protected] wrote:


>Once upon a time there was only CW but thankfully someone with more
>imagination than a sea-going radiotelegraphist was driven to find other
>modes and methods. I remember reading somewhere that "professional"
>telegraphists once objected to any kind of "bug-key" being used in a real
>"office"!

One of my lecturers told me that in the 1960s the GPO still banned bugs for 
ship/shore from UK vessels.

Seasons greetings.

John F5VLF