QRT 500 - The Close Down of 500 kHz in the United Kingdom -
Channel: djringjr
Date: 2020-10-09

Terry George, G4AMT recorded this video to preserve history.  Listen to the professional Morse operators from the entire coast of the United Kingdom sending close down messages, and being answered from the nearby stations of the English Channel, the North Sea Stations and even the distant Mediterranee Sea station.  There is also a contact between Land's End Radio/GLD with VCM across the Atlantic to Canada.   A TRANSCRIPT of the Morse code into English is provided (or a Morse Libretto if you wish). here: https://archive.org/download/qrt500/QRT_500_Transcript.pdf and the iso file to make a DVD or save the video is here: https://archive.org/download/qrt500/qrt500.iso

Incidentally, former military, aviation, point-to-point and land-based radio officers are invited to join radio-officers@googlegroups.com email list by emailing AND STATING your affiliation with this profession radio-officers+subscribe@googlegroups.com. The contents of the list are public, but membership is restricted so we can accurately preserve our history,