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    Paul Heiney

    Dec 20, 2019 3 minutes
    ‘Imagine not only trying to send a Morse message in a stiff breeze, but also reading one with a gale blowing’

    Can you do semaphore? No, neither can I. Hands up if you don’t even know what semaphore is. Yes, quite a few of you, and I can’t say I‘m surprised since it’s now a few years since it was painfully drilled into every child who joined the scouts.

    It was a way of communicating, providing the two people trying to chat

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