[CW] Question about marine radiograms

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

My friend, Bob Shrader, W6BNB worked for Dollar Radio, which became Globe
Wireless (I believe), he passed at 99 years young, a great fist on the bug
and cootie key, he founded the SideSwiper Net (SSN)
<http://www.sideswipernet.org/> which is still in existence.  Bob taught at
King's Point U.S. Merchant Marine Academy during and after WW2.  He
published the classic book, "Electronic Communication" - the 2nd edition
still had spark transmitters in it because you'd find them on ships as back
up emergency transmitters (still legal for that use even today.)

Yes it's pronounced "Mack-EE".

The Resources <http://www.sideswipernet.org/resources.php> page on SideSwiper
Net (SSN) <http://www.sideswipernet.org/> is quite informative.

73
DR
N1EA



On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 5:12 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>      Thank you, this is very helpful. I was thinking of the
> period lets say up to the late 1940s. I assume the following.
> Someone sent a message from a ship to an address in, say,
> Chicago. The message would be sent by radio from the ship to a
> shore station, lets say WCC. WCC would send the message via
> Western Union to the addressee. WU would deliver it. The sender
> would pay a fee to the ship, to RCA for the shore station and a
> forwarding charge to WU.
>   I think the same arrangement was used for cable messages.
>     Some history of Mackay says that the Mackay company set up
> the first American owned cable to Europe and created Postal
> Telegraph partly so they would not be beholden to WU for relay
> services. WU acquired Postal in 1938, I think, giving them a
> total monopoly of domestic telegraph service. WU was probably ten
> times as large as Postal. At some point Mackay was acquired by
> ITT. There is a fair amount of history of ITT and of the Mackay
> companies on the web. I also have a book (buried at the moment)
> about Western Union. Fascinating since it was fought over by
> greedy financiers for a long time, perhaps to help them get
> control of railroads. It was the first nationwide business.
>     Well, I am getting OT here since wire telegraph is not
> exactly CW.
>     BTW, my old mentor, who had worked for Dollar Radio and Globe
> Wireless long ago pronounced Mackay as Makee. From the bios of
> Clarence and John Mackay that was evidently the way they
> pronounced their name.
>     I love "deranged".
> On 11/6/2018 12:10 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > You're right, people could either contact Western Union or if they
> > knew our telephone or telex number, they could send the message for a
> > ship to us.  Remember the whole telegraph / radio system was upended
> > around 1988.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> 1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
> WB6KBL
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