[Qcwa] Morse Code and WWI Navy Radiomen

Sun, 12 May 2002 02:00:02 +0100

Hi All:

Don't know about the Navy, but in the Coast Guard, DCO was District 
Communications Officer.  Both services had parallel organizational 
structures, so I'd guess that's what it meant.

73,

KW4AW

At 20:54 5/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Friends,
>   I have some old glass lantern slides from the estate of Commander
>Thomas Appleby.  He was responsible for constructing the Navy's system
>of Direction Finding stations on the east coast to DF submarines during
>W.W.I.
>   I will show some of the DFing slides later, but the first slide I
>wanted to show you is Naval recruits on their way to becoming Radiomen.
>You will notice a practice key in front of the RM at the left of each
>table.  Others are poised to copy code.  Some have headsets.  This photo
>is c. 1917 or 1918.  Have a look at
>http://www.metronet.com/~nmcewen/megastage/Appleby-21-Navy-Recruits-Code_School.jpg
>   Here is what Appleby had to say about the slide:
>   "Slide 21 Naval Radio School Philadelphia at Broad and Cherry
>streets.  Personnel had to be trained for these new jobs [DFing] and
>here we see the emergency Naval Radio School in Philadelphia where
>hundreds of Naval Radiomen got their first 'sea-going' experiences.
>Officers standing L to R
>   Cmdr. Kelly, USNR
>   Ens.  Fred Chandler, USNR
>   Ens.  Eugene Murray, USNR
>   Lt.   *****sbeil,  DCO, USN  [can' make out the name. What does DCO
>mean?]
>   Lt. R.Y. Cadmus, USNR
>   Ens. David J Heilig, USNR
>   Lt. jg Thomas Appleby, USNR [Appleby is the small man with the
>mustache standing behind the recruit sitting down at the key.]
>   These recruits learned International Morse Code.  A requirement for
>Radio Man 1st class was also a high degree of proficiency in the
>American Morse code.  The Navy had their own landline network.  Also
>DFing stations were connected by landlines.
>--
>73 de K5RW, Neal McEwen, at "The Telegraph Office", [email protected]
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