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From: "K=D8=88B" on Thurs,Apr 14 2005 7:18 am

"K4YZ" wrote in message
oups.com...

Didn't Hans put that well into the 70's for the Navy?

No, Hans didn't.

The last significant use of Morse in the Navy was in the late
50's/early 60's.
This usage was by small-boys, DD and smaller, on "fox" broadcasts
and
"A1"
ship/shore circuits.

Both uses ended with fleetwide deployment of Jason and Orestes
circuits in the
early 60's. Morse training for general duty Navy RM's ceased at the
same time,
and Morse operator became a specialized NEC (MOS to you grunts) held
by only a
few sailors, mostly in SPECOM branches (intercept operators, etc.).

The single operational Morse use which survived was the VLF SSBN
transmissions
(two transmitters, one Cutler, ME and the other at Jim Creek, WA).
That was a
simple slow-speed beaconing system which notified boomers to pop up
their
satcomm antennas for the actual communications.

73, de Hans, K0HB
Master Chief Radioman, US Navy

Thank you for factual corroboration, Hans.

What Hans "corroborated" was the FACT that Morse Code WAS in use by
the Armed Forces well after you said they weren't.

My nephew-in-law was an electrician's mate on a shark,
involved with reactor power plants, not radio...(SNIP)

Which only means that there is yet another member of your family
out there with as much practical experience in Amateur Radio as you
have...

The original "Sigaba" on-line TTY crypto terminal was
first installed in the 1940s...(SNIP)

And had nothing to do with Amateur Radio practice or policy.

The "Sigaba" encryption looked like severely distorted
TTY to any standard, non-crypto TTY terminal, totally
unreadable...(SNIP)

A lot like most of your anti-Amateur Radio rants.

By interviews and other correspondence, the U.S. Army
maintained morsemanship as a requisite for Field Radio
MOSs ("NEC" to swabbies?) up to about 1972.

Not "required" for "Field Radio MOS's" (yes, NEC's to "swabbies")
however STILL taught and STILL used in the 21st Century.

There was no movie-style "behind enemy lines" use of morse
in the 1990-1991 period...or afterwards.

Ohhhhh...Geeeeee....You mean there is SOMEthing our government
doesn't disclose to Leonard H. Anderson..?!?! Imagine that!

Steve, K4YZ