Re: LF: WHITE PLAINS

[Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>]

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

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ian Marsh<i.marsh@virgin.net> wrote:
> 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 calls. The coast station
> operator would then call the ship and the link call or whatever could then
> be set up. Sydney/VIS used to come back with something like: 'This is the
> Eastern terminal of the Australian Overseas Telecommunications Commission".
> Not sure about White Plains though. The AT&T marine R/T station in that area
> was WOO at Ocean Gate which I think was somewhere near Cape Cod. Maybe White
> Plains was a point -to-point operation.
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> Ian, G4EXD
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