Edward Sandle on Communication
Although the Radio Officers Association has got about 300 members worldwide, they’re all getting old and it’s diminishing in number, but many of them in the Radio Officers Association are amateurs and amateurs do keep Morse going. They still communicate with Morse.
I haven’t bothered because, well we used to think well, were professionals, were not amateurs.
I remember when I was on a ship, somebody came to the Radio Room and said to my Chief, he said, “Oh, any amateurs in here?” and he said, “No, were all professionals” and that was our attitude.
We couldn’t really see much point in spending a whole day listening to radio and then going home and doing it again.
Especially if it was only somebody in Kent or somewhere whereas we’d been communicating with people all over world.