[CW] Navy Radio

Fri Feb 13 14:54:45 EST 2015

David, you are correct.  They are *not* mills!  We are still looking for 
an authentic pair of period Navy mills for LOP1 and LOP2.    Until then, 
they still give our visitors an accurate picture of how a WWII radioman 
copied the Fox broadcast on a typewriter,  5 character cipher groups, on 
a form,  and then ripped it off the platen and gave it to the watch 
officer for decryption.

Good eye!  BTW, the Royals do indeed work beautifully as typewriters and 
ours have the glass topped keys as you described.  But they are not 
Mills.

73, Stan WB2LQF

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:11 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:

Stan,

USS SLATER Radio Room 
http://www.ussslater.org/tour/decks/superstr/radio-rm/radio.html 
<http://www.ussslater.org/tour/decks/superstr/radio-rm/radio.html>

On USS SLATER, the new photo of the R/R 
http://www.ussslater.org/tour/decks/superstr/radio-rm/images/radio_3.jpg 
<http://www.ussslater.org/tour/decks/superstr/radio-rm/images/radio_3.jpg> 
shows two Royal typewriters with wrinkle paint, that model had glass 
topped keys, and they are excellent typewriters, but I have never seen 
that model with communications keyboard - all caps and slashed zero.

Are they MILL keyboards?  
If so they must be excellent as that model Royal is one of the best 
typewriters ever made.
73
David N1EA

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:00 PM, stan levandowski via CW 
<cw at mailman.qth.net <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net> > wrote:
Yeah, maybe Brian Williams did the interview...

In any case, aboard the USS SLATER we've got a rare RCA TBL-8 paired 
with an RBC and it's a lot older than theirs!  We're working on removing 
a stubborn chirp from the oscillator at this time.  We don't use it 
routinely either but ONE man can handle the LM freq meter, the RBC and 
the TBL-8.  Check out WW2DEM at qrz.com <http://qrz.com>  for pix and 
info.

73,
Stan WB2LQF
former RM2 USS BOXER

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Radio K0HB via CW wrote:

Here is a quote from a recent ARRL Letter, talking about radios on the 
museum ship USS Iowa.  My comment follows the quote.

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The AN/URT-23(C) transmitters, he joked, are "built like a battleship," 
with a pair of 4CX1500Bs in the final and nominally capable of putting 
out a couple of kilowatts. He noted that once the Gray Radio Gang has 
confirmed the signal paths for the various shipboard transmitters and 
receivers, it will be able to put a transmitter/receiver pair in 
operation for certain special events. "At this time it's unlikely that 
we will use the original radio equipment for 'routine' Amateur Radio 
operations, as it's very manpower intensive, requiring at least six 
people to operate," Jerzycke explained.

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I am certain this fellow (Jerzycke) must have been misquoted.

"Manpower intensive"???? "Six people"????  SIX????  To operate a single 
transmitter/receiver pair????

 My greenest RMSN could tune up a URT-23 in a minute or two from a cold 
start!  It's an auto-tune rig, basically only requiring the operator to 
select the frequency and mode.  The companion reciever (R-1051) is 
similarly uncomplicated to operate.

Navy ships, like a destroyer, had several of these transmitters, a 
selection of several other models, plus assorted cryptos, teletype, 
satellite rigs, and internal messaging equipment and processes.  A 
typical watch section on duty, responsible for ALL that equipment and 
ongoing circuit operations usually consisted of 5 or less Radiomen.  If 
we'd needed 6 men per-pair per-watch-section our entire Radio Gang would 
have needed a tow-behind barracks barge to carry them all the RM's!

73,de Hans K0HB

Master Chief Radioman, US Navy

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