* Posts by Griff.Aurora

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Life's a beach – then you're the comms nexus of the British Empire and Marconi-baiting hax0rs

Griff.Aurora

I trained as a member of C&W’s foreign service engineering staff at Porthcurno in 1968/9. My first overseas posting was to Gibraltar. I was on duty one New Year’s Eve in 1970 - the night PK closed down. I spent the evening monitoring the many messages from telecommunications offices across the globe saying goodbye. Then I had the sad honour of sending the very last message to PK, before disconnecting the cable equipment in Gib.