WW2 Lancaster Bomber radio room.
An interesting illustration of a vintage shack from back in the day
This is a wonderful 1942 WW2 poster by John Phillip Falter showing a female CW operator.
WW2 Marine radio trainees.
CW was copied by typewriter and not by hand.
CW was copied by typewriter and not by hand.
The first mobile operation in the 1920s?
QST Magazine image 1942: “CW For Our Country”.
Learning Morse Code in WW2.
These young men look like they are really concentrating.
These young men look like they are really concentrating.
Here is a 1950 photo of Olive Carroll, then a 24 year young woman from British Columbia, who trained as a Canadian radio telegraphy officer and took a job on a Norwegian ship and traveled the world. Her original ham call was VE7ERA. She is still active using CW as VA6ERA / CF6ERA.
A book about her career, Deep Sea ‘Sparks’ – a Canadian Girl in the Norwegian Merchant Navy, can be found on Amazon.
This is a terrific photo of a 1949 NATO communications room in the Fontainebleau Hotel in France, set up for CW with a strategic map on the wall.
