Re: REVIEW: "Good Night Old Man", George Campbell

["Marc" <marc () marcd org>]

> But they won't tell you anything about what it was like to be a
> telegrapher, to actually communicate, and help other people
> communicate with Morse code.  How you got started, what the work was,
> and what your career might be like.  This book does.

> The title, "Good Night Old Man," comes from a code the telegraphers
> themselves used.  "GN" (and a "call sign") was sent when the
> telegrapher signed off his station for the night.  Morse code is no
> longer used commercially.  Within a few years, the last of the
> "native" speakers will have died off.  Morse will become a dead
> language, possibly studied by some hobbyists and academics, who can
> tease legibility out of a sample, or laboriously create a message in
> that form, but without anything like the facility achieved by those
> who had to use it day in and day out.
>
> This is a last chance to learn a part of history.
>
> copyright, Robert M. Slade   2011     BKGNOM.RVW   20111128


I am generally just a lurker to this list, but I do have to take exception
to the statement above.  There are many amateur (ham) radio operators who
are fluent in morse code and several groups dedicated to its preservation.
Google 'CW club'...or better yet get an operator's license and get on the
air!  You can get most anywhere around the world on 5 watts RF with CW while
voice requires many times that.

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