Engineer - (transatlantic cable installation) : Peter Newman

Transcript

I was doing clerk of works duties on the installation of the equipment for what was going to be the Kingsway repeater station, and eventually became the transmission system that backed up the transatlantic terminal, which moved into the end of that tunnel system in 1956 when the first transatlantic cable opened. The point was that we were sitting talking to people in the States that sounded if they were in the room next door. When you know, prior to that, operators had to monitor all the time to even calculate when the radio systems available to the public was acceptable or not.