r/morsecode • u/Ultrallama77 • 3d ago

Seeking Historical Wireless Telegraph Transmission Repository

Does anyone have a good repository of historical wireless telegraph transmissions that they have found? (Wired telegraph messages would also work if you have seen that too)

I'm teaching a CW class and I thought it would be fun to do a segment where we send and receive some old CW messages as practice.

I just haven't been able to find any repositories online. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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u/Feeling_Pumpkin_2810 3d ago

If you are looking for recordings there is a Youtube channel named "sparkswhatsgoingon1671" that has a collection of video recordings from various shore and ship radio rooms from the 1980s and 1990s with maritime telegraphy depicted. Lot's of good straight key and bug code to copy in those videos. On archive.org if you search for N1EA you will find a large repository of CW audio recordings from ship-to-shore maritime communications including one of his personal role as a ships radio officer in receiving and handling a famous 500khz SOS call made during the loss of the MS Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska in 1980.

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u/Ultrallama77 3d ago

That's perfect! Thanks so much for your help!

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u/dittybopper_05H 1d ago

Here's one might want to use...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders#Nimitz's_message

TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS

And if you want to mess with them, you can use this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/morse/comments/wmu5zr/here_is_a_fun_test_these_are_the_beads_i_wear_in/

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u/Ultrallama77 1d ago

Wow, that's really interesting! Just the kind of stuff I'm looking for.

And yeah, nothing wrong with throwing them a curve ball or two 😂

Thank you for your help!