[GreenKeys] RTTY at sea 1945 experiments

[Nick England]

The US Navy's primary way of sending messages was via HF broadcasts from
shore stations to ships  - the Fleet (FOX) Broadcast.
They ran experiments in late 1945 about converting from CW (Morse Code) to
radioteletype.
https://www.navy-radio.com/fox-history.htm

I didn't realize that around-the-world echo was such an issue - I have
heard "long-path" echoes sometimes but not often. Despite the "not-great"
results from this experiment, they eventually addressed the issues and
converted over to RTTY on HF (and then UHF Satellite).
https://www.navy-radio.com/traffic.htm#fox

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20250818/c474a162/attachment.html>