During my sea-going days it was quite common for marine R/T stations to transmit a loop tape for a period when a ship called so that the ship's R/O could accurately tune his SSB receiver for link cal
Ian, Ocean Gate is in New Jersey, not Cape Cod (which is in Massachusetts). http://wikimapia.org/4673741/AT-T-High-Seas-Service-Radio-Station-Manahawkin-WOO -- 73 Warren K2ORS WD2XGJ WD2XSH/23 WE2XEB
They used to announce that "this is a point-to-point and not a broadcast service". I believe they were connected with ATT. John F5VLF ** REPLY SEPARATOR **
White plains is immediately North of New York City: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=white+plains,ny&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=VW5GSo-fLdGkt
That was one reason for the continuous transmission. The other end picked the most suitable frequency, then called and an exchange of traffic began. White Plains and other similar stations listened o
Many thanks for putting me right. Probably thinking of WCC. Ian Ocean Gate is in New Jersey, not Cape Cod (which is in Massachusetts). http://wikimapia.org/4673741/AT-T-High-Seas-Service-Radio-Statio
Tnx info Warren It is a good bit inland for a shore/ship radio telephone station. Normally they were located on the coast. I used to hear it frequenntly in the UK 73 Mal/g3kev White plains is immedia
Yes that was the only transmission I recall hearing from them. It made me wonder why someone would put up a station just for 'circuit adjustment purposes' and nothing else. I wondered what kind of c
My first short wave receiver was a Knight Kit Star Roamer I built around 1960. One of the first receptions I heard was a transmission that kept repeating a message something like this: This is a test
