[CW] ITU OPERATIONAL PROVISIONS APPLYING TO MORSE AND SOUNDER WORKING

[Richard Knoppow]

    The only time I heard CP used was by KPH in its introduction to the 
daily press transmissions. CP CP CP de KPH KPH KPH, now RCA UPI PRESS 
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ON  followed by a list of frequencies. The other 
stations sending the same press, KFS, WCC, WSL sent CQ.

On 9/7/2023 4:40 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Most Radio Amateurs have never seen the ITU Operational Provisions
> applying to Aural Morse (tone) and Sounder working (click, click).
> 
> Here is
> 
> DIVISION B OPERATIONAL PROVISIONS APPLYING TO MORSE AND SOUNDER WORKING
> 
> This document doesn't have CQ in it or CP, that must be elsewhere in
> the ITU Blue Book for Maritime Mobile Service.  I'll have to look for
> it.
> 
> As a consolation, I attach a recording of a CP addressed broadcast by
> Romania tanker ship "Fundulea" / YQIB which tragically was later
> attacked by Iranian Revolutionary Guards on November 23, 1987 as it
> entered the Persian Gulf through the Straits of Hormuz.
> 
> 73
> 
> DR
> N1EA
> 
> 
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-- 
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998