[GreenKeys] Routing Indicators

[Nick England]

A 1957 Navy Routing Indicator map is here
http://www.navy-radio.com/commsta/circuit/usn_network1957_b.jpg

RBMP was NAVCOMMSTA Guam.

I think if your ship was terminated with Guam, your RI would have been
RBMPNWLD.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 8:38 PM Ralph Irish <w8roi at wowway.com> wrote:

> *Just wondering if there are any other former Navy Radiomen, (1957 - 1961)
> in the group who*
> *might recognize the term, "Routing Indicators"?*
>
> *I seem to remember a system of addressing/routing messages with
> 'indicators' starting with*
> *the letter "R".  I was told that the "R" indicated a worldwide system, of
> some kind.*
>
> *RBMPCR  was one I seem to remember.  Not certain whether it was for my
> ship or not.  Just*
> *that it came up a lot.  The "CR" indicated some sort of encrypted or
> 'CRypto' involvement*
> *I think.*
>
> *I think that these 'indicators' were used by 'pre-computer' machinery
> that could sense the*
> *sequence of characters following the "R" and get a message headed to the
> correct destinations.*
>
> *We only occasionally used them, favoring the four character "Addresses"
> from one of several*
> *Navy and "JANAP" publications.  Our ship was NWLD, the USS Hancock.  In
> looking through the*
> *publication that held thousands of these four character addresses, I
> discovered that our*
> *ship had a second address:  NGKQ.  No one seemed to know just why, and I
> don't recall that*
> *address ever being used in traffic headed to the Hancock.*
>
> *Anyway, would appreciate hearing from anyone who had experience with
> Routing Indicators.*
>
> *Thanks & 73,*
>
> *Ralph - W8ROI*
>
>
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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