[GreenKeys] The Last Active Morse Code Station in the US - KPH Radio Station - YouTube

[Richard Knoppow]

    Seems to me I have seen the cutter called a cutting thimble. 
I think I saw this in a Western Electric catalog of railroad 
telegraph equipment. WU used a tool with both cutter and 
moistener that took a roll of tape. I don't know what that was 
called. Everything has a name. Clerks in hardware stores often 
don't know what you are talking about if you ask for something by 
its right name. I am fascinated with language and like to learn 
the jargon of specialties.

On 5/3/2020 2:11 PM, Richard Dillman wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 1:42 PM Duncan Brown 
> <duncanancy at earthlink.net <mailto:duncanancy at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     KPH would receive telegrams for ships from Western Union on
>     the Model 2B
>     (M14) and paste them up on message blanks, just like
>     regular telegrams.
>     But then the message would go to a Morse operator to
>     forward the message
>     to the specific ship. Messages from ships could be typed on
>     the 2B to be
>     sent to WU for delivery.
>
>     There were machines to do automatic Morse to 5-bit TTY
>     conversion and
>     the reverse. They just got one at KPH a few years ago.
>     Don't remember
>     which direction it went in, or whether they were ever used.
>     The Navy
>     had similar machines.
>
>     Duncan
>     K2OEQ
>
>
> Thanks again Duncan.  The Model 2B can be seen in photos of the 
> post war KPH operating room when the station moved from the 
> original Marconi receive site in Marshall, CA to the current HF 
> point to point receive site at Point Reyes. The Western Union 
> line if mentioned often in station manager Frank Geisel's 
> monthly reports from 1946 and 1947 because it was so often out 
> of service.  With the help of several folks, some of whom are 
> members of this list, we were eventually able to acquire and 
> restore a Model 2B to operation.  It's on display in the 
> current KPH operating room along with a tape moistener and a 
> finger cutter (there's probably and official name for this 
> device).  When I printed the first tapes with the 2B and glued 
> them to a message blank the I could see how well designed the 
> system was - even though I had never done it before the 
> operation was intuitive.
>
> RD
>
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