Hi Ward!

Saturday May 06 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 >> Yes, but I often see on streets horses (with childrens and theirs
 >> parents, at park) and I know that Morse code use on the sea.
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 WD> I think you are not well informed. One of the tasks of my company
 WD> (government telecom company) was to handle ship-shore traffic by morse
 WD> code.

 WD> It was officially abandoned years ago at international level, somewhere in
 WD> the second half of the 90-ies, I'm certain by the time you read this
 WD> Michiel will already have posted the exact date. They all use
 WD> INMARSAT-facilities now.

 WD> All radio-com stations for ship-shore traffic were dismantled and only a
 WD> small unit remains to listen to the emergency frequency. That's
 WD> voice-traffic.

My be it was abandon for voice speak, but for technical purposes it is working now.

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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