[CW] Books about Maritime Radio and Radio Officers
Radio K0HB
kzerohb at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 15:14:10 EDT 2018
Here’s another great first-person account of seafaring Radiomen.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ULPLAY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
73, de Hans, K0HB
Master Chief Radioman, US Navy (Ret)
On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 20:52 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> Since Maritime Radio was one of the first adopters of radio, and of
> continuous wave, I am sending this list along as I know some are interested
> in maritime history.
>
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> Books about
> Maritime Radio
> and Radio Officers
>
>
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> *One Hundred Years of Maritime Radio
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0851746322/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0851746322>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> by W D Goodwin*
> -
> *Blackwater
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000CK168/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0000CK168>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> *
> by Harold Lawrence Tredree
> (set aboard the SS NORMANDIER)
> - *CQ-GTZM* - Diary of a Maritime Radio Officer;
> -
> *Deep Sea Sparks - a Canadian Girl in the Norwegian Merchant Navy
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1895590051/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1895590051>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> *
> by Olive J Carroll
> -
> *Dots, Dashes and Spindrift
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/141208430X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=141208430X>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> *
> by Dan Williams
> trafford.com/06-0185
> - *Fated* <http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/fated/2717584>
> a seagoing novel by Charlie Gregory (ex R/O GKR, O/C GNF, Radio
> Surveyor Cardiff SRIO)
> -
> *Ferry Destiny
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/142513677X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=142513677X>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> *
> by Dan Williams
> trafford.com/06-0185
> -
> - *History of The Radio Officer* in the British Merchant Navy And on
> Deep-Sea Trawlers;
> J. Greenlaw
> - *Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship* by Ian M Malcolm by Amberley
> Publishing
> <http://www.amberleybooks.com/shop/article_9781445600208/Life> in 2010.
>
> (After leaving the sea, Ian worked at Wick Radio for one
> year, followed by two years at Portishead Radio).
> - *Memories of a Sea Gipsy* by Derek Peters
> - *QTC - I Have a Message for You* by "Sparks" ( Ray Redwood)
> - *RMS St Helena* and the South Atlantic Islands
> Completed in 1999 and published in 2006 by Whittles Publishing of
> Caithness. The books covers the author's years as radio officer aboard the
> two St. Helena's (1979 - 1992). Illustrated with about 75 photographs
> - *SOS TO THE RESCUE* by Karl Baarslag
> [title subsequently changed to "Famous Sea Rescues"]
> - *Sparks at Sea* by R W Chandler
> -
> *Sparks in the Parks: The experiences of a Canadian Radio Officer serving
> on the wartime-built deep-sea freighters of the Canadian Merchant Navy
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/096866640X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=096866640X>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
> <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#> *
> by W Hutcherson, a Canadian R/O serving on Canadian built Park ships
> during and after WW2
> - *Through Salt Sprayed Eyes* by Robert Welsh.
> Wartime memoirs of an R/O
> - *To Catch a Shadow*: A Wartime Tale of Espionage and Intrigue From
> Africa to North Russia by Leon Wortman. The book describes in detail the
> lonely life of an OSS agent with R/O background whose missions take him
> behind the lines from Africa
> to Russia. (First Books Library) Leon A. Wortman was a R/O on Murmansk
> convoys ships
> - *Watchers of the Waves*: a history of British Coast Radio Stations
> - *Wireless at Sea*, The First Fifty Years
> - *The Wireless Officer* - by Percy Westerman
>
> *"QRD Snohomish"*
> * -- *by Conrad Burns
>
>
> *"Morse Memories"* -- Spud Roscoe * PDF*
> https://mega.nz/#!akV2VSwJ!pqcdjPwAUfygHZhE_SAf-6w5im-MNzoWG73pz2lsD5U
> *ebook*
> https://mega.nz/#!z5MigCDb!F2AhNC-dx0s0VOoISqio2DTSBJiZZC44rATzqmqfOuc
>
> Web Pages
>
> http://radiomarine.org KPH
> http://www.gordonmumford.com/radio-02.htm Gordon Mumford author and
> former R/O
> http://www.marconigraph.com/ Parks Stephenson (historian and subscriber
> to this list)
> http://www.seefunknetz.de/seefunker/index.html and their famous map
> (click on section)
> http://www.seefunknetz.de/seefunker/homepage/seefunk.htm
> Thanks to Rolf Marschner and Rainer Brannolte
>
> http://coastradio.intco.biz/coast-radio-station-map.htm Coast Radio
> Station Map of the World
> Part of the Coast Radio Stations of the World Website
>
> http://earlyradiohistory.us/
>
> http://coastalradio.org.uk/ Many resources here
>
> This list is no where complete but it is a good start for wandering the
> web.
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73, de Hans, K0HB
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"Just a boy and his radio"™
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