[Milsurplus] The old 2 MHz boat channels ?

[howard holden]

Back in the day, there were a lot of commercial ops who really swung 
their fists, maybe out of boredom, or (worse) being a little tipsy, or 
just wanted to have a "distinctive" fist. Really showed up on 500Kc. 
Also a fair number of ships I think still used A2 emission on 500, maybe 
even a few foreign vessels running chopper-generated A2. Some really 
raucous notes there. Not so from the coast stations.

I only ran into one op on the Navy freqs with a really bad fist, not 
counting an occasional newbie. He was on a USNS fleet oiler in the 
Mediterranean, running around between ports near US air bases. A bunch 
of us from NGR visited him one time in port in Piraeus, where he 
apologized for his fist. Said while he could copy really fast, he 
suffered from a sort of stage fright when his signal was going out over 
the air. We dealt with his poor fist for over a year.

Howie WB2AWQ


On 5/26/2017 3:17 AM, Richard wrote:
>  In the olden days when I was young and ignorant, instead of 
> middle-aged, (?) I tried to copy code on MF, and could not due to 
> rotten fists.  Doubting my ability (meager) I went back to the ham 
> bands and all was well.  I would do much better now, and wish I had 
> persevered.
>
> Richard, AA1P
>
>
>>
>> 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
> ant)
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