[Milsurplus] The old 2 MHz boat channels ?

[howard holden]

In my Navy CW days (66-70) I monitored and transmitted on 500Kc - NAW 
and NGR. Had to keep the distress log - entering XX15-18 or 45-48  no 
sigs. Seldom took traffic from it on our MF working freqs of 470 and 
480, but copied waaaay too many XXX messages, and a few distress. When 
the occasional merchant ship would call us we normally moved it up to 
HF. In Greece, SVA, the coast radio station in Athens, did most of the 
Med activity on 500. Interesting freq, but the Navy HF CW freqs were far 
more interesting, and kept us busy.

Interestingly, in Gitmo (NAW) our main CW freq was 2836. NBA, NAR, NAU, 
and NAM plus a few others also guarded that one.

Howie WB2AWQ


On 5/25/2017 7:18 PM, B. Smith wrote:
>   When crossing either the Atlantic or Pacific and flying in other 
> remote areas  you always tried to monitored 2182 and 500 IAW 
> directives.  When a military HF station could not be raised on the 
> assigned frequency for that area you could always send out a relay 
> request on 2182  and send your position information. At least 
> "someone" had your last known position.  :-)
> k4che
>
> On 5/25/2017 7:38 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> I wish in the heyday I had listened on 500 kHz but for some reason 
>> never did and I still don't know why.
>> I did at one time have a HB single-tube VLF receiver which I copied 
>> several U.S. Navy stations on. And I did
>> also like to tune my RAL in to CKN's Pacific weather and seas 
>> broadcasts, but for some reason didn't
>> think about 600 meters.
>> -Hue
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