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  • BBC Morse transmitter in WWII?

    From MB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 20 18:54:13 2021
    I have been reading an excellent new book about the history of the coast
    radio service.

    There is a description of the WWII Emergency Inland Wireless Telegraph
    network, this was a network with transmitters in major towns and cities
    that could pass traffic in the event of major disruption of landline etc.

    It got me wondering, many years ago I saw one of the usual ET4336
    transmitters at a Medium Wave transmitter site (Burghead?). It had a
    Morse key attached to the top. Was there a BBC WT network in WWII for
    passing important traffic are were they able to communicate with the GPO
    WWII Emergency Inland Wireless Telegraph network or with a military site?

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 21 22:58:22 2021
    On 20/11/2021 18:54, MB wrote:
    I have been reading an excellent new book about the history of the coast radio service.

    There is a description of the WWII Emergency Inland Wireless Telegraph network, this was a network with transmitters in major towns and cities
    that could pass traffic in the event of major disruption of landline etc.

    It got me wondering, many years ago I saw one of the usual ET4336 transmitters at a Medium Wave transmitter site (Burghead?). It had a
    Morse key attached to the top. Was there a BBC WT network in WWII for passing important traffic are were they able to communicate with the GPO
    WWII Emergency Inland Wireless Telegraph network or with a military site?

    I have found a list of the sites in POST 121/447.

    Quite a number do seem to be BBC sites.

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