[LINK] Australian Defence buys new telegraph key cables

[Adam Todd]

Oh well thank god I didn't send the two I've got to the compactor 
truck - now I wonder how much they are worth!

IN fact one is a double key - you flick one way for dit and the other 
for dah - a very fast key to use indeed!

Only problem today is so few people can decipher morse code as it is, 
yet alone at 30 wpm :)

At 02:10 02/07/2008, Tom Worthington wrote:
>Australian Defence has really upgraded its communications, issuing a
>tender for ten new cables for their telegraph keys.  ;-)
>
>---
>Cord Assembly, Electrical Key Telegraph
>ATM ID  RFQ-C7249
>Agency  Department of Defence - DSG
>Category        43222700 - Telegraph equipment ...
>Publish Date    27-Jun-2008
>...
>Description     Qty 10 Ea 5995/996304975 Cord Assembly, Electrical
>Key Telegraph
>---
>
>From:
><https://www.tenders.gov.au/?event=public.atm.show&ATMUUID=C3B14550-FC18-6113-0197221C11EF98FB>
>
>The tender document is a facsimile of a paper form with a list of
>part numbers. When I tried to find some of  these parts with a web
>search I ended up at a museum <http://w1tp.com/perkcol.htm#m9000.htm>.
>
>Of course the telegraph key still has uses, and saved the planet in
>the movie Independence Day
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(film)>. ;-)
>