The Civilian Technical Corps --Read about the Civilian Technical Corps (CTC), a group of American volunteers, many of whom were Radio Amateurs, who served in Britain during WW-II, primarily as technicians in the highly secret CH (Chain Home) early warning radar system that protected the British Isles. Ian Brown, of the WW-II Radar Archives, has recently published an interesting article describing this little known organization. Additional information is being sought.

Click on - The CTC PAGE

Bill Pierpont's Book --The Third Revised Edition of the excellent book "Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy", by the late Bill Pierpont, N0HFF, is now available for free download. No person having an interest in telegraphy should be without this important book.

Click on - The Art and Skill of Radio-Telegraphy: http://www.raes.ab.ca/TASRT/index.html

The Mill

"The Mill" is a many featured PC program for telegraphers of all levels, from beginners to those with many years of amateur or commercial telegraphic experience. The user can select either American Morse or International Morse. The program is highly interactive, operator friendly, and fun to use.

The features include: Stellar Screen Saver; Set up Personal Preferences; Keyboard Mode with over-printing buffer; Create and Send Quick Files; Create or Edit text files from within the program; View or Print text files; Send text files; Repetitively Send text files; Copy Code on Mill; Copy Slip on Mill; Learner's Flash Cards; Random Sending of Characters, Code Groups, or Words; Operator Dialogues; Navy Signaling Lamp; Speed Runs; Normal Farnsworth Sending; Word Farnsworth Sending; Speed Incrementing; and Boot to Mill (Auto-send). Scandinavian and German characters are supported. Help is provided by Operational Notes, which explain the various features and provide other information about telegraphy, both American Morse and CW. The program contains numerous prompts. Error trapping with error messages and safe recovery, give protection from incorrect operator inputs and other errors.

For your practice and listening pleasure, the program contains many text files, some of which are special dialogue files. Dialogue files that were contributed by users are identified and credit is given. 

The best way to learn about the program is to download it and take it for a spin. A few minutes after you have downloaded "The Mill", you can take the guided tour of the program.

"The Mill" is freeware. Downloaders are requested to "register" by e-mail. Users are encouraged to "help keep telegraphy alive" by distributing copies of the program download file by disk or as an e-mail attachment.

Please click on - The Download Page

The above photo, taken in 1990, depicts the author, W4FOK/TG, in his tent radio shack deep in the Guatemalan jungle at the old Ixcanrio chiclero camp site near the Rio Azul Archaeological Site in the Peten. The camp's small a.c. generator provided power in the evenings for lighting and the small CW radio transceiver.

Read about the snake bite emergency!

If, after reading the article, you have any questions concerning the jungle radio operation, please send me an email. "The Mill" contains a realistic simulation of the radio messages handled during the snake bite emergency.

Please send me an E-mail if you find anything that doesn't work, or wish to make a comment about this site.  Thank you, Jim Farrior.

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Special Features, Issues, Q & A, Etc.

Railroad Museums, Demos, Etc.

PC Speaker

DOS or Windows?

Solenoid Sounder

No Serial Port Output

Place a "Mill" Shortcut on Your Desktop

"The Official U.S. Time Clock"

Check these LINKS.