Hi folks,

I've been trying to search for info / pics on the UK termination end of the TAT-1 cable (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAT-1) and came across this little jem - http://indicatorloops.com/obanbay.htm including details of the buiildings. May be worth starting a wiki page on the oban area?

Have you looked at the Contents Page?

You'll find Oban, or more accurately Ganavan, covered in some detail - we couldn't resist

If you fire TAT-1 into the search, you'll find we're on the case for that too, only listed as a First at the moment, we're hunting down more info on the subject.

Wikipedia information is second-hand, not source material, so you won't normally find it referred to in SeSco, which doesn't mind admitting it's the same (second-hand info) as there's no shame in that. What would be wrong is being second-hand source referring or quoting a second-hand source - which I hope makes sense

meh - Thought I'd searched. Suspect typo and there was a user error in failing to look at the contents page. Definately on the 'todo: road trip' list.
btw - I saw that some of the tat-1 spare valves were being flogged on ebay recently, although the chances of finding it again are minimal (ever tried to search ebay for 'tat'? 80% of all listings....)

I think the valves were for sale quite a while ago, but there was another site that had some info relating to them and their history.

I can't recall it, and the details are hazy, but I think the asking price was around $16,000 - whether it was obtained is another story.

Made me reach for my spares box, as I have couple of valves that look like 2 litre Irn-Bru bottles, but I doubt they'd be worth that much as they might be big, but don't have a famous history