[CW] Navy Radiomans Mid Watch

[Mark K3MSB]

Thanks Hans!

Mark K3MSB

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On Oct 25, 2013 11:11 AM, "Radio K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com> 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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