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Professional HF Work?
On Sat, 12 May 2007 04:47:18 EDT, "Dr.Ace" wrote:
AT&T High Seas Radiotelephone Facility - was the only facility of its kind in the world, provided lifesaving, two way voice radio-telephone service communication between ships at sea, or aircraft, and telephones on land, sea, or in the air. I beg your pardon - most if not all major coast stations throughout the world had that capability. I was involved with the Israeli coast station - 4XO in Haifa (Haifa Radio) - in the mid-60s and I knew that all of the European coast stations had HF SSB voice service available as well. Before satellite communication systems were widely available, the only way ships at sea had to communicate with the rest of the world was via HF SSB connections to land stations. Uh, are we forgetting CW and RTTY (later SITOR) TELEX HF which did not use AT&T's network? Sometimes a hotel would register a land based transmitter as a yacht, and give it a fictitious name in order to provide phone service to their customers. Two brothels in a remote area of Nevada (where such activity was legal) tried that in the late 70s and the VHF Marine carrier who colluded in that lost his license and equipment as a result. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net |
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