[CW] Question about marine radiograms

[Richard Knoppow]

     Very simple, I realize that I don't know something very 
fundamental about how marine radiotelegrams were worked. This is 
mainly how the coastal stations got the messages to the 
addressee. I have always assumed they must have relied on Western 
Union (or Postal Telegraph when it existed) but can't find much 
definite about it. Did companies like Radiomarine have traffic 
offices between the radio stations and the telegraph service? How 
did they work this? I have some memory that if you wanted to send 
a radiogram you could call WU and say you wanted it to go via RCA 
or Mackay or whatever. Perhaps there were also direct numbers. 
But I can't imagine even as large a company as RCA having the 
sort of local delivery ability of WU.  Probably all very obvious 
but not to me at the moment.
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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL