[Fists] Ships no longer carry CW operators

[Cheryl W. Ring]

The 3 SSB radio-telephone stations I mention?  Without revenue, they went
off the air.  WOO in Manahawkin, NJ, WOM in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and KMI in
Point Reyes, CA are all gone - and with them the miles of log periodics and
rhombics - WOO had a rhombic every 15 degrees around the circle. 10 kW
transmitters were about 15 miles north in Tom's River.  They had about 40
channelse (40 x 10 kW  transmitters) at each station.

GONE.

And won't be replaced easily.  Should we ever need them.

So you see - it is more "we can't afford to go back to CW" rather than CW
has been superseeded.

GMDSS (Distress system) still isn't fully implimented - and it has been
4-1/2 years.
The Asiatic ships (still using CW) say they won't be ready for quite a
while.

73

David Ring - N1EA

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> Within THREE months after the Radio Officers were discharged from ships,
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> three huge American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) coastal stations -
> running over 50 channels of 10 kW SSB were off the air because revenues
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> No one knew how to do radio.
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> Is this what is going to happen to ham radio?
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> 73
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> David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA
> Radio Officer, Chief  (Ret.)
> United States Merchant Marine
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