[CW] More Navy Radiomen

[Richard Knoppow]

      Thank you for posting this. You bring up something very 
important: before wireless ships at sea, any ship not just Navy 
ships, were completely isolated. There was no communication 
unless you happened to pass another ship who had some news or 
when it reached a port with telegraph. The reason ship captains 
have so much power is that they were completely on their own. If 
something happened to a ship the only way anyone knew is if it 
was late for arrival or some identifiable wreckage was found. 
Many ships sunk with no trace.  Marconi changed all that. The 
effect was profound but it took time. The U.S. Navy caught on 
pretty quickly  and much of the early history of radio was due to 
the Navy.

On 4/16/2018 10:42 AM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> *Radiomen*
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> *by Bob 'Dex' Armstrong*
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> *****In the old Navy, your only link with the civilized world was 
> via the radio shack. A cubby hole on Requin aft of the scope 
> wells in the control room... It was the home of the spark shufflers.*

-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL