[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

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In a message dated 11/2/2016 7:59:04 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
ddillman at igc.org writes:


ok Dick educate me  so I can fit some of this together... were  they 
receiving RCA message  stuff  from the ships and mailing  the telegram 
out to peoples homes and businesses  perhaps?

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Now this is getting interesting.  I'll start  with what I know, then go to 
what I guess.

All radiograms to and from  ships were transmitted by Morse code.

Messages from ship to shore could  be delivered in several ways.  They 
could be sent by TTY to the Central  Radio Office in San Francisco where they 
were delivered by bicycle messenger  (as late as 1962) or TTY to the 
recipient.  Less expensive were Night  Letters.  They were typed with a mill at the 
receive site, then mailed to  the recipient.  I know this because I have a 
Night Letter and its  envelope postmarked Inverness (the closest post office 
to the receive  site).

Messages to the ship arrived at the receive site by TTY from the  Central 
Radio Office in San Francisco.  The call signs of the ships were  placed in 
the traffic list, transmitted every two hours.

Now on to what  I guess.

Radiograms to ships could also be filed with Western Union to  be sent "Via 
RCA" or any of the other coast station companies.  There was  a Western 
Union line at the receive site in the era the photo was taken  (1946-1947).  We 
know this because then station manager Frank Geisel  complained in his 
station reports that the line was often not operating.   We have these reports 
and have published them in our Newsletter.

My  guess is that the 2B was on the Western Union line and that it printed  
radiograms for ships filed through Western Union.  I suspect the ops at  
the receive site pasted the gummed strips produced by the 2B to radiogram  
blanks and placed them with the other radiograms in the traffic list for  
transmission to the  ship.

Best,

RD

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Richard  Dillman
Maritime Radio Historical  Society
http://www.radiomarine.org
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OK what you  said here I also  think is good!
 
""
 
My guess is that the 2B was on the Western Union line and that it  printed 
radiograms for ships filed through Western Union.  I suspect the  ops at the 
receive site pasted the gummed strips produced by the 2B to radiogram  
blanks and placed them with the other radiograms in the traffic list for  
transmission to the ship.

Best,

RD""
 
 
 
 



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