[CW] Navy Radiomans Mid Watch

[Rick Dettinger]

And, Mid Watch refers to the Watch that goes from midnight to 4 AM local time.

73,
Rick Dettinger  K7MW
In Western Washington, where its just past eight bells in the Morning Watch.






On Oct 25, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:

> I could tell you those things, Ken, but then I'd have to kill you.  <grin>
> 
> Not really.  I'll treat your points one at a time:
> 
> "Broadcast":  This refers to the Fleet Broadcast, a one-way circuit that all ships copied.  It was the means that record traffic ("messages" as opposed to tactical real time communications) was delivered to ships.  You copied this circuit 24/7/365.  Originally this was a CW circuit (the "Fox" broadcast you may have heard of).  In the 1950's it switched to RTTY, and eventually to FDM.
> 
> "Beach fivers":  The "beach" is the shore station in a ship-to-shore circuit.  Circuit condition is expressed in QSA/QRK (our equivalent of the ham RST) "Fivers" is short hand for QSA5/QRK5, or "loud and clear".
> 
> "COMBAT":  The Combat Information Center, also often called "CIC".  They were a big customer of radio circuits, tactical voice circuits and NTDS data circuits.
> 
> "Oboes":  Military messages were assigned a precedence, depending on how urgent they were, and that precedence had a letter designator.  There were 6 levels of precedence; Deferred = "M", Routine = "R", Priority = "P", Operational Immediate = "O", Emergency = "Y", and Flash = "Z".  The term "Oboe" referred to the "O" precedence designator.
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ken Brown
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 6:11 AM
> To: CW Reflector
> Subject: Re: [CW] Navy Radiomans Mid Watch
> 
> I'm not an old time Navy RM, and I still enjoyed it. I have a few
> questions about some of the terminology. I'd like to understand it
> better. In this context, what does "broadcast" mean?
> What are "beach fivers"? Is "COMBAT" an acronym for something? Oboes?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken N6KB
> 
> 
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