[GreenKeys] Where was the "Telegraph" in AT&T?

[Harold Hallikainen]

On Mon, February 3, 2025 10:57 am, W.C. Lake wrote:
> I was hired in 1968 to work on the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph telegraph
> test board in San Francisco.
> We many telegraph (real morse code) circuits for various government
> agencies.  In fact, every test position had a key in place.  My mentor was
> an old timer who used the telegraph order wire to chat with other testers
> in various cities.
> The old guys liked to do that because none of us newbies could copy their
> conversations.  We also supplied Western Union connectivity for the last
> mile on their telex service and their telegraph service.  We had many
> Priority circuits going all over the world.  Those were the days.
>
> 73,
> Wayne WD6DZS

That's great! I understand that KPH ( https://www.radiomarine.org/ ) used
International Morse on the air and used American Morse on the order wire
between the control point / receive site in Pt. Reyes Station CA and the
transmitter site in Bolinas CA. Photos of my visit to KPH are at
https://hallikainen.org/gallery3/index.php/Harold-Louise/2015/KPH .

Harold
https://w6iwi.org



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