A Blast from the Past

[Gerard Kennedy]

CQ de EJM

TFC LIST QSW 421=


Gerry Kennedy
Dublin

[Mike Hall]

Is this spam.......................................

[cappy]

well marion ...not a lot of people knew that ....suprisingly .....lol cappy

[cappy]

well marion ...not a lot of people knew that ....suprisingly .....lol cappy

Or miss moneypenny no doubt

[Denis O'Shea]

It is Malin head radio coast station calling all stations CQ advising traffic list on frequency 421 which is his working freq. Den

[Gerard Kennedy]

Well done, Denis, are u one of us?
Gerry

[Keith at Tregenna]

Gerard, your previous posts showed you connected to Radio Operations / Officers etc,
did not reply earlier hoping and still do hope that you find some on site that were.

Pretty certain Denis is one of you!

Keith.

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[j.sabourn]

Us poor old slowcoaches on the lamp half the speed of the RN and a fraction of the speed of radio , at 6 words a minute , I can only remember CQ always being the general call to all ships , calling a ship on lamp would be a series of AA. AA AA until ship called answered with T. Then sending ship sending break sign BT, then message, after each word the receiving ship would transmit T to signify had received . At the end of the message the transmitting ship would send AR signifying end of message.and the receiving ship would send back R for message received . Procedure would be reversed when other ship replied with its own message ,with all the appropriate AA, BT , T, ARs. If you missed a word you could ask the sender to repeat by sending the appropriate code groups. JS

[j.sabourn]

#2. No it’s error error error. JS. Or erase, or EEEEEEEEREEEEE JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Means of communication for many in our day was a message in a bottle over the side.
No dit,dit dot on that as they were well and truly empty.