[CW] Suez canal

[kilobravo]

By the way I am looking for a ship aerial switching unit for our "beached ship radio station"..

Marconi or others, if anyone knows of one..

Tks

73

VE1DS  KB
On 2012-09-04, at 12:27 PM, kilobravo wrote:

> Here is a ship with the operator in the Suez sending, very impressive R/R...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=TYtCAMvr4qg
> 
> 
> When this one ends, you will see more video selections., contained within are the only other two I could every find on You Tube of a "Working ship operator" before the end of Maritime mobile CW in 99...
> 
> For a total of only three that were not staged videos...
> 
> 73
> 
> KB  VE1DS
> On 2012-09-04, at 11:08 AM, N7DC wrote:
> 
>> That was one of the nets that I occasionally ran across in my "general 
>> search" position when in the intercept service.  It was fun copying 
>> those guys, and  I could keep up for half an hour or so if they were 
>> constantly sending, but after that, my mind just kinda went away.  The 
>> UN police operators that were in and out of the Belgian Congo at the 
>> time were also very very fast ops.  Another guy and I would switch off 
>> every half hour or so, just to keep us fresh copying them.  Remember we 
>> had to copy both sides of the conversations, 100 percent typed copy, 
>> which was hard, especially with others calling in on top of them, and 
>> regular propagation of QSB, QRN, QRM etc.  We often found them sending 
>> in the 45-50 wpm range.
>> 
>>  There was  nearby country which was constantly at war, which had some 
>> of the rottenest operators going.  Trying to copy them was a "choice".  
>> Often, there would be 4 or 5 out of 6 or 7 stations, all sending at the 
>> same time, back and forth, with short 1 -2 page messages.  I just had to 
>> pick out one of the signals at a time, and stay with it - thus the 
>> "choice".  Luckily, several of the transmitters had easily identified 
>> sounds and you could tell the callsign just from hearing the signals.  
>> It was good practice for pileups in my ham life.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Danny Douglas
>> N7DC
>> 
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