> It seems 500 kHz marine radios had many strange "features".
... well, I was once young, too ;-) ... as a backpacker I travelled through
Turkey back in 70ties of last century. After a trip almost around Turkey I
took a ferry from some place to take me to Istanbul. As the boat trip was
long and a bit boring I did what I usually did at those times when riding a
ferry: I climbed up to the radio room and showed the raios officer my QSL
card. As usual I was received very friendly. A conversation was not that
easy because we did not really speak a common language ... besides the
Q-code and CW radio abbreviations! Somehow it worked, we had a lot of fun.
Then the radio guy made me understand that he was supposed to send a message
about his position to the nearest coastal station. He wrote the text of the
message to be transmitted on a sheet of paper, handed it over to me and
pointed to his morse-key. For me as a radio ham without any previous
experience in the ship radio service it was a great feeling transmitting on
an MF frequency close to 500 kHz and even receive ans answer from the
coastal station. I felt a little bit like when I was conducting my first QSO
as a ham.
... well, and now I am sitting here in my shack, and an old marine radio
tranmitter keeps the frequency 440 kHz busy under the callsign DI2BO. Old
stations never die ...
Best 73
Geri, DK8KW / DI2BO
P.S.: In the meantime I �t least do hold a ship radio telephony operator's
certificate ...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Costas Krallis SV1XV" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:30 PM
Subject: LF: Re: RSGB seeks 501-504 kHz for Expermintal license
>
> It seems 500 kHz marine radios had many strange "features".
>
> During my army service I was posted well inland, in Western
> Macedonia, at the town of Grevena. I had a Racal HF
> military radio, usualy tuned on 7045 kHz LSB for ham chat,
> except when there was a sched in the military bands.
>
> Well, one day I was tuning up and down, and suddenly I
> heard a greek ferry calling SXE (Aspropyrgos Coast
> Guard) in CW, passing a departure announcement for
> Syros & Tinos islands. The frequency was 5001 kHz, the
> 10th harmonic of 500 kHz!!
>
> 73,
> Costas SV1XV
>
>
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