[GreenKeys] Where was the "Telegraph" in AT&T?

[Richard Knoppow]

    Regarding KPH, the way marine telegraph service worked was that the 
ships communicated via radio with shore stations (and vice vesa) but 
messages from land sources came to the shore stations via Western Union 
or in its day Postal Telegraph as telegrams. Each short station had 
operators for the wire circuits which used American Morse and other 
operators for the radio circuits, which used Continental Morse. To work 
at such a station one had to be proficient at both codes.
    If you wanted to send a message to a ship you would call WU and file 
the message, WU would forward it to the radio company traffic center who 
would send it to the appropriate station. Each station had a "traffic 
list" several times a day with calls of ships having pending messages. 
Two systems used. For outgoing messages the ship would call a radio 
station who would take the message and send it via land telegraph.

On 2/4/2025 9:36 AM, Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys wrote:
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998