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A Sparker's IF

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The Telegraphist’s Lament

In a cold and lonely BWO, where the last B40 stands,
A museum set of signal pads held idly in my hands,
With my jargon half forgotten, of my stock-in-trade bereft,
I wonder what’s ahead of me – the only sparker left.

The relics of my ancient craft have vanished one by one,
Superhetrodyne, B28 and Slidex all have gone,
And I hear they’d be as useless in the final global war
As W/T procedure and the bunting’s semaphore.

The office is sprouting gadgets like a nightmare Christmas tree,
There are keyboards for computers where my morse key used to be,
And I couldn’t read steam broadcast midst this lunatic array,
For at every height and angle there’s a visual display.

The proud, efficient telegraphist is rendered obsolete
By electronic computer equipment fitted in the fleet,
And a signal’s through the system in the blinking of an eye
But everyone’s too busy to make a wet of kye.

To delete the human error, to erase a noble breed,
We rely upon a micro chip, we pin our faith to speed.
So we press a key, make a switch and spin a little disc,
And it’s cent per cent efficient – and never mind the risk.

But again I may be needed, for the time will surely come
When there’s a fault within the system and the modern stuff is dumb,
When the Satellites are useless but CW’s flying free –
It was good enough for Jackson and Mountbatten, and it’s good enough for me.

By Dave Morris

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10 Little Sparker Boys

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Hi David
I have had a request via the website from a daughter of an Instructor at Ganges in 1950, his name was:
Charles Harry Swann Price
Sadly he passed away last year but going through his odds & ends they found a cap with this badge on, any idea what it is please?
Phil [The Webmster of HMS Ganges Association]

Any info, suggestions, thoughts welcome.

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Phil Tootill
I am spreading the net, far and wide to publicise the Tiger Comms reunion in Lichfield during the weekend 11, 12, 13 October 2024.
Any and All Comms from any period of Tigers life are invited to attend, for further details, please visit the HMS Tiger Comms Facebook page or email Phil Tootill (as above)

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King Harald “Blåtand” Gormsson, Bluetooth & the Jelling Stone Ship

https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2024/04/kin ... more-61487