[CW] Grimeton Radio SAQ Transmission on 24. October 2021

[Richard Knoppow]

    Thorne Mays gives some details of where the various machines 
were installed. Several of them were moved, more than once. He 
does not discuss the antennas but the machines needed the 
multiple tuned antennas to work properly.
    Evidently, Belmar was a very good recieve site.

On 10/23/2021 12:51 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> There was also an alternator transmitter at New Brunswick, NJ 
> (callsign WII) Belmar, NJ was the receiver site. 
> https://infoage.org/history-ia/historical-resources/radio-reminiscences-a-half-century-by-a-hoyt-taylor/ 
> <https://infoage.org/history-ia/historical-resources/radio-reminiscences-a-half-century-by-a-hoyt-taylor/>  
> as noted the alternator no longer exists.
> 
> If any of our members are in the area, InfoAge Museum is there 
> now, I had the pleasure of attending an opening of an 
> exhibit constructed by the Veteran Wireless Operators Association 
> http://vwoa.org <http://vwoa.org> on April 13, 3017 in which the 
> SOS and rescue of the burning cruise ship ms PRINSENDAM was 
> prominently featured. I'm seen in the attached photographs with 
> my donation of copies of my handwritten SOS logbook from T/T 
> WILLIAMSBURGH/WGOA and a copy of the original SOS I copied down 
> on a piece of paper which was signed by my Chief Radio Officer, 
> (CRO) James N. Pfister, NS1L, and MS PRINSENDAM's Chief Radio 
> Officer (CRO), Jack A. A. van der Zee, of Beek, Netherlands who 
> we rescued from lifeboat and who found our warm radio room, and 
> myself.
> 
> WILLIAMSBURGH's (CRO), Jim Pfister offered his bunk to Jack who 
> in the middle of the night, woke up, and opened the adjoining 
> door to the radio room to find me stretched out on the deck under 
> the radio room operating desk which shielded the "always on" 
> emergency lighting on the overhead (landlubber translation: 
> ceiling) from my eyes so I could sleep. I had given up my double 
> wide bunk to five women whom we rescued.
> 
> CRO van der Zee woke me up and said: "Is this how American ships 
> keep watch?"  Jack had forgotten that our ship was a cargo ship 
> (1200 foot by 143 foot beam (wide) oil tanker) and we only were 
> required to have 8 hour live watch with 16 hours guarded by auto 
> alarm watch receiver!
> 
> 
> 73
> 
> DR
> N1EA
> 
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