[CW] Navy Radiomans Mid Watch

[Radio K0HB]

Except Radiomen stood 8 hour watches, so the Mid was from 2345 to 0745 (you 
always relieved 15 minutes early).

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rick Dettinger
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 3:23 PM
To: CW Reflector
Subject: Re: [CW] Navy Radiomans Mid Watch

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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