[CW] How was message routing done?

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thank you. I think commercial messaging must have been 
somewhat different. What I understand now is For messages _from_ 
ships at sea the message would be sent from the station to its 
traffic office and then via Western Union wire to the final 
recipient. Or else message could be delivered by telephone (by WU 
or the radio company?) or by mail. The lists in some of the old 
books show wire cost per word which depended on the distance of 
the recipient from the radio station.
     This is the other way, how would I have gone about 
originating a message to someone aboard a ship?

On 4/23/2019 2:02 PM, George wrote:
> For USNS (Navy chartered) ships, the ship would send a message to whichever communication station they thought would be the one they would be copying messages from, say NDT for Japan. That communication station would then receive their messages & hold them. For USS ships (Navy), all Communication Stations in the area would broadcast messages for all ships in the area (encrypted, of course).
> George N0GM (former RM)
> 

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