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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by Joules on September 03, 2025, 11:17:52 AM »
Yeah Andrew, I couldn't work out the publicity stunt of trying to get the radio, surely building a reproduction would be far more useful and a hell of a lot cheaper.  They literally want to wreck, the wreck !!!
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by Joules on September 03, 2025, 11:14:35 AM »
Thanks kayzed1
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by awemawson on September 03, 2025, 03:14:44 AM »
From fairly recent footage it seems that the radio room is still amazingly intact though I doubt that any of the equipment would survive removal.

Very early days of maritime radio of course so I’m not surprised that little space was dedicated to it..

I learnt morse code in the school combined cadet force (CCF) but that’s a heck of a long time ago and it’s leaked away now!
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by Joules on September 02, 2025, 07:13:27 PM »
So, it was generators not batteries that shorted out.   Yes, interesting read.
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by vtsteam on September 02, 2025, 06:34:23 PM »
Joules, I learned SOS in the boy scouts, too, though I didn't last long in it!

re radio on the Titanic....this was a pretty interesting read-- just found:

http://jproc.ca/radiostor/titanic.html
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by Joules on September 02, 2025, 06:16:15 PM »
That's a great picture Steve and real sobbering that the operators stayed on post till the batteries shorted out.   I learnt SOS as a cub scout when we were told the story of the Titanic, pretty much the start of my interest in Morse.   Seems even more relevant in these days of insecure digital communications and Morse's ability to be used in challenging conditions.
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by vtsteam on September 02, 2025, 05:18:57 PM »
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by vtsteam on September 02, 2025, 05:15:15 PM »
When in Quebec city I saw a big museum exhibition about the Titanic, complete with some reconstructions of rooms. Included was the radio room, which seemed to me quite small and scanty of equipment. At least compared to my imagined communications center for such a huge ship. There were the morse paddles on a table. I don't believe the room even had a porthole. If I remember correctly the two operators stayed until the water reached the radio room. It was a pretty sobering exhibit.
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by kayzed1 on September 02, 2025, 05:00:29 PM »
 :beer: :beer: :beer:
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Project Logs / Re: Morse Paddle in Progress
« Last post by Joules on September 02, 2025, 04:36:00 PM »
I have a cunning fall back plan.   The little keyer I use is a USB device, it can be linked to a laptop and Morse sent and decoded at speed using Fldigi....

Shuush, don't tell anyone.....
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