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ARRL Sets up OHTC New Sked Times
Policy Review Committee The OHTelegraphy Club (OHTC)
At the 1996 Annual Meeting of the was founded in June 1994 with the aim
American Radio Relay Leagues Board of developing and spreading QRQ
of Directors, on January 1920, the (high speed) CW operation in Finland.
President was authorised to set up a com The President of the club is Seppo
mittee to make recommendations for Niemispelto, OH6VR. The motto of
ARRL policy positions relative to mat OHTC is CW FOREVER!!!
ters likely to be discussed at WRC99. The clubstation, OH0-9ABD can be
In summary, these include ensuring heard on Saturdays on 3.535MHz at
that no structural changes should reduce 11.00 UTC, and on 14.055MH2 from
the privileges of existing classes; main 13.00 to 15.00 UTC. On Sundays it can
taining the integrity of the amateur
Signalling Equipment
Ltd advert
(from Wireless World
COMPLETE September 1944)
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The SEL [ago
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At the entrance, a hand key, with (Our thanks to Monika PouwA rnold,
the code beside it, invites visitors to PA3FBF, for this information. We wel
test their flst, or call others inside the come news about museums with some
museum. element of Morse interest from around
The museum shop offers souvenirs, the world. As well as being of general
etc., and various books related to broad- interest, this information isfor the bene-
casting in the Dutch language. t of MM readers visiting other coun
Opening times: Tuesday to Friday, tries who like to include visits to such
10.0017.00. Saturday and Sunday museums in their itineraries. Ed.)
12.0017.00. Guided tours available by
prior telephonic request. Access suita It lives!
ble for wheelchairs. An advertisement placed by the Minis-
Admission: Adults NLG 7.50, Chil try of Defence in the Recruitment
dren (up to 12 years) NLG 5.25. section of the Daily Mail for Thursday,
Travel: by train to Hilversum-Sport 14 March 1996, included the following
park (three minutes walk from station) vacancy:
or park in spacious car park at front of The No. 1 Radio School at RAF
museum. Address: Oude Amersfoortse Locking, Weston-super-Mare, wish to
Weg 121-131, PO Box 10, 1200 JB appoint an Instructional Ofcer 1
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seille, as I said. A few others had limited good is the fact that every station on that
voice, but they couldnt be counted on frequency, however far away, can also
and we frequently worked them in Morse send or receive. Its a giant party line.
code. Visualise, if you can, a situation
Those that had voice operated most where, say, 20 aircraft ying at any giv-
ly on a frequency of 8930.5 kilocycles. en time in the FIRs of Rome, Athens,
The term cycle has been replaced and Cairo, Tunis, Lod (Israel), Casablanca
is now known as hertz, in honour of and Algiers, along with the two stations
one Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857 in Turkey, Ankara and Istanbul, are all
1894), who was the rst to broadcast using the same frequency. If you know
12 MM45 aprit 1996
anything at all about Citizens Band over to Marseille and I listened as the
radio, then the word chaos will come trainer made contact in Morse code. Mar-
to mind. seilles call sign was FNM and he an-
But it wasnt chaos because we used swered on the 4th call. His reply was
a mostly outdated thing called radio dis- very fast and crisp. He was using an
cipline. Know what you have to say, automatic telegraph key, known as a
say it, and GET OFF THE AIR! It was, bug. He was faster than I could read.
however, busy. You had to listen, wait
your turn, quickly make your call up, Im Not Ready for This!
and be ready when the ground operator The trainer sent our position report
answered. If you didnt play the game and the estimated time of arrival over
properly, then you were ignored for about Marseille. All done in Morse code, us-
30 minutes. ing Q signals. (Example: QNH denotes
The same rules of the airwaves the atmospheric pressure in inches or
applied to non-voice radio, but the millibars of mercury at any given air-
congestion was considerably lessened. port, needed by the pilot to correct the
The frequency was different for Morse altimeter to show correct altitude.)
code and only those aircraft in the FIR With Q signals, it wasnt necessary
could be heard, usually no more than for the communicating parties to speak
ve or so. the same language. I canied an inch thick
book of Q signals everywhere I went
Faster Than I Could Read for three years and used it until it was in
My experience with Mr Marseille, rags.
the controller in that FIR, began on Wow, I thought as I listened to the
my initial training ight on the way to trafc, This is real radio operating.
Athens, Greece. I was ying with an Then the trainer told me he wanted
experienced radio operator whose job it me to make the next transmission to
was to expose me to the real world of Marseille. Oh, God, I thought, Im
airborne radio operation, to evaluate me not ready for this. But I wasnt going to
and check me out. let anyone know. So, acting in what I
Having seen so many classmates go thought was a condent, devilmay-care
to nonying assignments, and having manner, I changed seats with the trainer.
lost the chances of ying training in the Part 2, describing the special on-air
Air Force Cadet programme because of relationship that built up between
my eyesight, I was ecstatic at nally the author and Mr Marseille, will
being up there in the Wild Blue Yon- appear in the next issue of MM.
der. But this was business and I had to
learn as much as I could. Radio school (This article originally appeared
notwithstanding, it soon became obvi- in Air & Space/Smithsonian, June/July
ous I had a lot to learn. issue, 1994, and is reproduced by
Somewhere approaching southern kindpermission ofthe author. All Rights
France, the Paris controller handed us Reserved, 1993, Charles L. Lunsford.)
MM45 apnf 1996 13
LMOST EVERY AP staffer
can remember reading the Wirespeak
message wire for the rst A brief look at an even briefer
time and bumping into a bizarre word or language
two. Perhaps a word so alien that it re- by Heidi Anderson
quired a translation from a veteran col
league. (reprinted from
Thats wirespeak, a strange combi AP World, Jan/Feb 1993)
nation of abbreviations, contractions and
misspellings found only on AP comput
ers and printers. Most staffers can toss
around the secret handshakes like a pro,
ling dandies like Cupla, foner and
xgr (see glossaryfor meanings. Ed).
But thats really only giving a cupla
quick breaths to the last generation of a
once mighty breed that ruled the wire. reporters added it to their Morse reper-
Test your knowledge of wirespeak toire, which already included short no-
by tackling this beast: tations such as 1 (wait a minute) and
Scotus tdy dedd 5 pw 0+ Potus dz n 95- (urgent). Phillips Code saved time
xtd 2 t Pips bc cgsl xgn Q sj is uxl. [1] and money, and helped Morsers avoid
If you didnt get past the 5, dont a precursor to Repetitive Strain Injury
even bother with this one: known as glass arm. If you didnt know
Quaffe fenes [2] Phillips Code, you didnt work at AP.
The code grew over the years. In
Origin of the Species 1914, it was compiled into 64 pages of
In the early years of the AP, the wire
(read: Western Union) ruled communi
cations from town to town. It was slow Footnotes
and it charged by the word, so an early [1] Phillips Code, circa 1914: Supreme
AP executive named Phillips invented a Court of the United States today decid
code that abbreviated hundreds of com- i
ed that the power of the president of the
monly used words and phrases. Like United States does not extend to the Phil
Scotus, for example, which is short for ippines because Congressional decision
Supreme Court of the United States. on the subject is unconstitutional.
Phillips Code quickly became a [2] APs Code A, Circa 1914. Quaff
standard. Telegraph operators and news . fenes = Will remain here in Little Rock.
changeable.
delight in marking such unnatural con- The feeling I get out here in the
tractions as code groups and charging boonies, says Donn, is that, while we
them at 5 letters to the word in any tend to ask for things sap, only the
telegrams he accepted. This often caused
General Desk has the ability to ask for it
great annoyance to regular passengers, sappest773
.
who would complain that they had never
been prevented from saving money in But in the Wrong Hands...
this way on any other liner theyd sailed
One nal note of caution: wirespeak
in! Ea.) must be handled carefully. Otherwise it
General News Editor Jack Cappon, might backre, as in the case of a myste-
the APs word guru, says it simply makes rious dark horse Indy 500 winner in the
sense to shorten messages as long as 19305.
everyone understands what it means. A small Colorado paper, which was
Wirespeakers are only doing what hu holding its PMs edition for race results,
mans have done with language since messaged the Indianapolis AP bureau
writing on cave walls. asking for an expedited report.
Im not sure its a technically bona The bureau telegraphed back, using
de language, but its denitely a legiti typical telegraph-speak of the time, Will
mate code language based on standard overhead Indy 500 winner. [3]
English, says Springeld, Mass, corre- A newspaper editor misunderstood.
spondent Jeff Donn, who holds a doc Says Managing Editor Darrell
torate in romance languages. Christian: The paper then wrote its own
I think it has characteristics of a bulletin saying an obscure driver named
bona de language for two reasons: it Will Overhead won the race. Even went
compresses words to make compound so far as to write a transition graf [4]
words and has a ton of phonetic spell- into the running story.
ing, Donn says. Phonetic spelling is
reminiscent of Spanish. And Esperanto (Reprinted, with permission of the
(a universal language created in 1887 Associated Press, from AP World,
by a Polish doctor) used the same two 3
January/February1993.)
qualities of wirespeak compression and
phonetics to create a new language.
There are even rules of usage, albeit Footnotes
loose ones. Take the word sap, a deri- [3] The term overhead refers to speed-
vation from the acronym ASAP, which ing a piece of news across the AP wire
means as soon as possible. From sap directly to a particular paper.
comes sappest, a superlative form [4] A transition graf is a paragraph in a
meaning sooner than soon as possible. news story that acts as a bridge between
(Theres also soonest, which appears two ideas or topics.
MM45 apnt 1996 17
HIS BOOK TELLS THE STORY
of the transpacic cable, a subma-
Gentlemen on
rine cable running from Canada
to Australia and New Zealand, with Imperial Service
cable stations at Fanning Island, Fiji, A Book Review
and Norfolk Island. For the telegraph
by Tony Smith
historian, it relates how the idea was
conceived by Sir Sandford Fleming,
Chief Engineer of the Canadian Pacic
Railway Company and discussed for over
a quarter of a century before its comple
tion in November 1902.
It describes the development of the
system, from simple manually operated
instruments to modern technology. It
tells how the cable was administered by
many masters, rst the Pacic Cable
Board, and subsequently by Imperial and
International Communications, Cable &
Wireless Ltd, Australian Overseas
Telecommunications Commission (now
Telstra Corporation Ltd), Canadian
Overseas Telecommunications Corpora
tion and Teleglobe.
Based on the personal experiences
of the author, R. Bruce Scott, and others
employed on the cable, it also provides WANTED, boys fteen years of age to
a fascinating insight into the way of life learn submarine telegraphy and serve
of the Morse operators who manned the overseas. Apply Pacic Cable Board,
cable stations in the South Seas, Aus 77 Pitt Street.
tralia, New Zealand, Fiji and Canada. He asked a Boy Scout friend what it
meant. Oh, thats the latest way of com-
Boys Wanted municating between submarines, was
At the end of the rst world war, the reply. Intrigued by the prospect, he
Scott was an ofce boy in Sydney, applied for the job and discovered what
Australia, when he saw an advertise- it really was. After a year in the ofces
ment in the Sydney Morning Herald: at Pitt Street, he was sent for training as
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MM45lprif1996 21
HE FIRST EDITION of The Code
Book was reviewed in MM34
The Code Book
(p.38). That edition went well Morse Code Instruction Manual
and sold out in the rst six months after (Revised and Expanded
publication. This second edition has Second Edition)
been expanded to over twice the size. and
Much of the extra material, concerning
students difculties, has been acquired Ham Stories
in response to a request for feedback on
the rst edition. Book Reviews
As previously, before teaching any- by Tony Smith
thing, the rst part of the book discusses
the learning process. The subjects of
various sections indicate the scope of
this approach: Commitment, Determi-
nation, Discipline, How the Brain Works, culties in learning the code, as well as
Logic, Thinking about Morse code, advice on how to study and practise and
Routine thinking, The Philosophy of how to approach the US Morse exams.
Learning Morse code, Communicating A number of appendices cover the
Without Thinking, Instinct at Work, WlAW code practice schedule, common
Instinctive Mode. Qcodes, a short list of CW abbrevi
Summarised like that it all sounds a ations, the RS-T system, the phonetic
bit complicated, but its not. It is a logi alphabet, international time conversion
cal and practical approach to a subject tables for the US and Canada, US ama-
that over the years has caused problems teur frequency allocations, and a table
for many who have tried to learn the of frequency usage for the letters of the
code. i
alphabet in the English language.
The structured self-study course of When I reviewed the rst edition of
24 lessons is intended to be combined this book I commented that while some
with commercial audio practice cassettes, parts are related specically to the re-
computer program courses, random code quirements of the USA Morse test, the
generators or homebrewed tapes made advice on how to approach the learning
by an experienced amateur, and advice process, and the course itself, could be
is given on the actual requirements be- of value to learners or improvers in
fore any of these are obtained. other countries.
There is also good advice relating to I still have that view. For learners
the more commonly experienced dif- outside the USA, still struggling after
This
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Unknown very large key, base 8 inches long, no markings. lnfo welcomed
Mk.II Set
The Wireless Set (Canadian) No. 19
Mk.II used two types of Key and Plug
Assemblies described as follows. The l
No. 2 made by Northern Electric Co.
rst type is the Key and Plug Assem 1
The designation Key and Plug Assem-
blies No. 9, ZA/CAN/BR 0937 (Manu bly R 11950 is stamped into the base
facturers # PC 90691C-1) as shown in from underneath creating raised letter
Fig. 1 and Fig. 2. Internally it has a ;
MkJII Set
The Wireless Set
(Canadian) No. 19 Mk.III
also used two assemblies
described as follows. The
rst is the Key and Plug
Assemblies No. 9, ZA/
CAN/BR 0937 already
described above.
The second type is the
W.S. No. 19 Mk.III
Key and Plug Assemblies,
MM45 prif 1996 2 7
Fig. 1. Key and Plug Assemblies No. 9 (ZA/CAN/BH 0937),
from EMEH FZ 256/2 and F2 256/3
CDN, N0. 9 Type 2, ZA/CAN 0715 Internally it has a two-bridge Key W.T.
Deborah
by
photographs
All
Fig. 3. Key and Plug Assemblies, CDN, No. 9 Type 1 (ZA/CAN 1643)
MM45 14171111996 29
Fig. 4. Key and Plug Assemblies, CDN, No. 9. Type 1 (ZA/CAN 1643),
from EMER FZ 256/2
Units, CDN, No. 1 designated ZA/CAN Details of how the internal key des
0977 (Manufacturers # RCA 11 18091) ignations relate to the assembly num-
as shown in Figs. 7 and 8. Note the bers are summarised in Table l, on the
different knob shape and lack of high opposite page.
voltage guard sleeve.
30 MM45 pnf 1996
Variants beige with red, yellow, and blue stripes.
And now for the variants! I believe 2. Standard plated base, at black paint
that variants are the spice of any collec-
ed cover, Key W.T. 8 Amp No. 2 Mk.II
tion and we must have them all. What a designation on Bakelite base, cord is dark
quest! brown with yellow, red, and blue stripes.
I have found several British-built 3. Standard plated base, at black paint-
Key and Plug Assemblies No. 9 with the ed cover, Key W.T. 8 Amp No. 2 Mk.II
designation ZA 0937 on the cover but ZA 2869 LMK designation stamped on
I
packed in a cardboard box with the des- lever arm, cord is dark brown with
ignation ZA/CAN/BR 0937 printed on yellow, red, and blue stripes.
the label as shown in Fig. 9. This indi- 4. Standard plated base, at black
cates that the Canadians used British- ,
painted cover, Key W.T. 8 Amp No. 2
built keys interchangeably. The internal Mk.II designation on Bakelite base,
key has the designation Key W.T. 8 Amp cord is light brown with green, yellow
No. 2 Mk.II. I found slight variations in and blue stripes, brass lever arm.
these British-built Key and Plug Assem 5. Flat black painted base, black wrinkle
blies No. 9 as follows: painted cover, Key W.T. 8 Amp No. 2
1. Standard plated base, at black paint- Mk.I designation on Bakelite base, cord
ed cover, Key W.T. 8 Amp No. 2 Mk.II is beige with no stripes.
designation on Bakelite base, cord is to page 32 >
21350ng9 ,
ZNCAN 1332
PC 82506 C- Keys, wrr, ZA/CAN 0977
190
American Sets
and had their own suppliers of Key and
The United States of America also Plug Assemblies No. 9, namely,
manufactured the Wireless Set No. 19 J.H. Bunnell (New York, NY) and
Alden Products Company (Brockton, tined for use in the Canadian Army and
Mass). The Tabular List of Replaceable represents a strong connection between
Parts for the Wireless Set N0. 19 US manufacture and Canadian use of
Mark II manufactured by RCA Victor Wireless Set N0. 19 equipment.
Division of the Radio Corporation of The Alden Key and Plug Assembly
America dated May 20, 1943 lists the No. 9 is shown in Fig. 11. The key is a
two assemblies under the designation modied J -37 with the knurled lever set
90691C1. nuts moved internally to the frame to
The J.H. Bunnell Key and Plug As- reduce width to meet the overall width
sembly No. 9 is shown in Fig. 10 in two requirements of the Key and Plug
variations. The lower key has a black Assembly No. 9.
wrinkle nish base and the designation Two variations are shown, the upper
ink-stamped on the lever arm, the upper key has brass hardware components
key has a plated base with the designa- and the lower key has black painted
tion stamped on the base under the lever hardware components.
arm and interestingly enough it has
the Canadian Army designation (C with Most Variations Found?
a broad arrow) stamped in red on the After many years of collecting, I
coven believe I have found most variants
This means that this key was des of the keys that were used with the
MM45 prif 1996 33
3\ 28
.. Vt? 31
,~ 25
Fig. 7. Keys, W.T. 8 Amp, No. C1 (ZA/CAN 0977) item 12 as used in Wireless Remote
Control Units, CDN, No. 1 (ZA/CAN 1332), from EMER FZ 256/3
Dedication
not intentional variants. Lack of availa- Fifty plus years later it is quite an
ble materials and substitutions made dur- honour to be able to sit back and ponder
ing wartime manufacture, meant that the variations from a collectors point
equipment had to be made available for of view. I dedicate this article to the
service in a timely manner. Wireless Operators that no doubt had to
use these keys under extremely adverse
conditions.
0n the opposite page:
Fig. 9 (top). British Built Key and Plug (Chris Bisaillion owns the
Assemblies No. 9 (ZA 0937). Whiskeytown Wireless Collection.
Box is marked ZA/CAN/BR 0937. His speciality is the
Fig. 10 (bottom). J.H. Bunnell Key and Plug Wireless Set No. 19.)
Assemblies No. 9 (USA)
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MM45 aprit 1996 39
T MAY BE DESIRABLE to set up
a telegraph circuit or circuits for
Power Sources for
a home telegraph ofce, fair demo
or museum exhibit. In regard to power Telegraph Circuits
sources for such set-ups, for satisfactory
by L.E. Ed Trump AL7N
operation and safety as well as protec-
tion of valuable antique equipment, there
are a number of things to consider in
order to do the job right.
source must be safely constructed, prop- their primaries in parallel, and their sec-
erly fused on the 115V AC side and set ondary windings in series to obtain just
up to minimise hazards to those work about any desired output voltage.
ing with it. Both positive and negative output
voltages with respect to earth common
THE AUTHOR ASSUMES can be obtained from the same trans-
ABSOLUTELY NO ?
/
2A fast-blow
fuse
29:0: 4 off 24V (CT) 2A transformers,
primaries in parallel. secondaries in series.
115V 24V
NC For a 60V supply, use only 2 transformers.
AC AC
For an 80V supply, use 3 transformers
+120V DC
24V
NC
AC
wwww
N o o 1:
24V ll IU+
10k
NC
AC
o 120V DC
24V
0 AC Fig. 1. 120 volt
telegraph battery
supply
40W 120V
+120V
lag
32W RL1
ower
:3
wirewound
NC
$-
60
: Earth
99 120:2
SOmA = 0.050A =
RLl + RL2 + 480 + 300 /\|/
N
20 miles
No.9 iron wire
240V PM 30)
RL1+ RL2 + 480 + 300 = = 48009
RL1+ RL2 = 4800 780 = 40209
Let RLl = RL2 = 20109
1209
T
420V
40W 120V
lamp
120V
T
Power
supply
1209
? Earth GD
CD
i? Fig. 2. Ground return circuit
120V battery feed at each and
1209
halves of the AC input cycle, and is Use Ohms Law to calculate initially
entirely adequate for telegraph purpos the series resistance value required to
es. See the diagrams and notes. set up a circuit. The calculated value
may differ somewhat from what is actu-
Current Regulation ally required, due to differences in
For current regulating purposes use ground resistances, etc., in the case of
3500 or 50009 wirewound rheostats ground return circuits, but it will be a
rated at least 90mA (35 or 50 watt) good starting point.
minimum. These can be obtained through Each feed from the power source
Fair Radio Sales in Lima, Ohio, or per should be routed through a common 40-
haps at swapfests, etc. watt l20volt incandescent lamp (a com
42 MM45 prif 1996
Fig. 3. Non-ground return
+120V
circuit, double battery feed 48>
120V 40W 120V
RL1
Power lamp
03500!)
sunply 50W
120V
wirewound
65-0
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New Exclamation Mark? owning the key elicited the reply that
In MM44, p.47, Keith Stammers GOSXG it had been used as a model for 12
suggested the use of II (unbarred) as an copies which were to be given away as
exclamation mark. Unfortunately, this presentations. They would not, therefore,
symbol is not suitable for the purpose. give me any information about the key
Apart from the meanings mentioned, as they did not want further copies to
it is also used on the Continent as a be made.
repetition signal between two words Perhaps there are some MM readers
to be repeated, for example: QTH who have used such keys, or have
HEIDELBERG I I HEIDELBERG. references they could loan me? Their
This meaning has been included in assistance would help me make what I
Morse books published in this country consider to be an example of an impor
since 1945. tant stage of Morse key design. Any help
Many thanks to PA3FBF, for sup- would be greatly appreciated.
porting the proposal by AGCW to use Dennis Gaucher G3LLZ
---------- as an exclamation
mark. (MM44, p.47).
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Otto A. Wiesner DJSQK
Heidelberg, Germany Key from Buzzer Practice
The unknown key at the top of p. 32 in
Grasshopper Key MM44 appears to be a key from the
I am seeking information about the British Air Ministry Buzzer Practice,
Grasshopper Key and wonder if any Ref. IDA/4067, from WWII, taken from
reader can help. I particularly want in the original unit and mounted on a new
formation as to how it works, and its base.
overall size, with a View to making a Jean Revidon FA6AOD
working replica. The version I have in Sevran, France
mind is shown in The Story of the Key,
Fig. 6.7, which at one time was on dis re CH
play in the Science Museum, London. I refer to the letter in MM44 (p.46) from
The museum tells me that the key Monika Pouw-Amold PA3FBF about
was on loan, and has now been returned the use of CH by a Russian operator.
to its owners. Inquiries to the company It should be noted that the Russian
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MM45pnf 1996 47
Morse Jewellery RUFZ Top-List Competition
The Dutch ladies weekly magazine continued from page 39
Story, Nr 2/96, gives details of ladies
and gentlemens jewellery (rings, scarf- 4. By Mail:
pins, cuff-links, etc.) decorated with From: Mathias Kolpe DL4MM,
Morse code signals. The item, translated Breitscheidstr. 17, D-01237 Dresden,
into English, reads: Germany. (Free disk, for cost of
In the era of electronic means handling/mailing only). Within Europe
of communication, Morse-code send 3 x IRCs or US $4.00 or 5 DM.
seems to be far behind us. This is Outside Europe send 5 x IRCs or
just the reason for artist Jan Py US $7.00). Do not send SASE or disk.
cke to use those mysterious Morse
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jewellery. The Morse-code, Copies of RUFZ can be passed on to
which undoubtedly will make you others, but they must be ORIGINAL,
think of the old western cowboy unmodied copies to ensure that users
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The Professors Morse. Cigar box label c.19081910 used by the Cuban Cigar Company of
Cleveland, Ohio. Depicts Samuel F.B. Morse on the right and his younger brother, Sydney
Edwards Morse on the left.
A high quality full colour replica of this label. approx. 81/2 x 11in, is available as part of
Shelton,
a set of telegraph ephemera from RWB/CG (Publishing), 8 Little Fawn Drive,
CT 06484, USA.
The set of three items also includes a multicolour calendar cover designed for the Morse
and a
Telegraph Club to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Samuel F.B. Morse;
certicate containing two portraits of Morse issued by two Connecticut Amateur Radio Clubs
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to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first Morse message, sent in 1844, i.e.,
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Also available are a number of collectable photographs of Samuel F.B. Morse at different
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packing, $15.00 (USA), or $17.00 (foreign). Send s.a.e. plus return postage