Consol ....
Quimper, Vigo and somewhere else
Bushmills, Lugo, Stavenger, Ploneis and Nantucket ( -. .- -. 194 Kc. )
Would count - say 35 dots and be up to about 15 dashes and the door would open and a raucous voice would shout ' anyone for a coffee ? ' Oh! for C---sakes, shut up ! start again..... one, two, three.........
One had to have a vague idea of ones' position, i.e. an Air Plot, as it was possible to get the same count from various positions around the station, or of course get another position line from a different source to resolve the ambiguity. Good fun - in retrospect !
Always seemed to get a bit off course due to an unexpected windshift around 49N / 10W coming 'up' to Lands End homebound, one Captain reckoned it was a glitch in the Isogonal of Mag.Var'n. at that point. Could be right. ( nothing to do with Consol of course. )