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Sea Trac
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Initially Posted - 02/15/2004 :  18:59:09  Show Profile
Okay, I can't stand it any more, even though I'm sure that I'm setting myself up to look completely naive, but please explain:

'PZ' W7JVY KFS/KTK/KLB/KOK/WNU/KPH/WCC/VAI/VAJ

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J.B. Manley s/v Sea Trac Allied Seawind II #65
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/15/2004 :  20:13:43  Show Profile
Those are radio call signs. Check this out...

[url="http://www.radiomarine.org/lastmorse.html"]The End of Morse[/url]
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Response Posted - 02/15/2004 :  20:28:32  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dlucier</i>
<br />Those are radio call signs. Check this out...

[url="http://www.radiomarine.org/lastmorse.html"]The End of Morse[/url]
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

I asked a few months ago.
It is amazing who we have the honor of communicating with on this site.
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PZell
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Response Posted - 02/16/2004 :  13:11:00  Show Profile
I did it with my eyeshade and all, just like the movies.
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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 02/16/2004 :  14:00:20  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Antares</i>
<br />...I'm setting myself up to look completely naive...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">See, what did I tell ya'.

Very cool stuff, Paul! However, I didn't find any explanation regarding the call signs. Would you mind defining and elaborating?
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PZell
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Response Posted - 02/16/2004 :  16:18:38  Show Profile
Except for W7JVY which my ham callsign, the others are the callsigns
of various coastal telegraph stations I have been associated with.
My main work was at KFS in San Francisco and KLB north of Seattle.
KTK was a San Francisco station and my first paychecks were from there before it was absorbed by KFS. In later years as morse declined we ran several stations (morse) directly by remote control from the San Francisco site. Although, I did work at the WNU site near New Orleans for a while. The two Canadian stations were distress frequencies which we ran remote control from here for a couple of years. KOK was a Los Angeles station that I keyed from for a while. We bought out the RCA/MCI stations KPH at SFO and WCC on the East coast and also ran them from here in the end. Previously, KPH/WCC were out big competitor in the old days, when we also ran stations in Texas and New York (KLC and WSL/WSF). All the ships had morse radio operators. Now it's all done with computers. Presently, we run about 20 stations around the world from this site basically in sitor related modes that work just like the internet (technology really blows us old guys minds). If you plan to do a world cruise we can set you up with communications from your yacht.
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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 02/16/2004 :  16:37:11  Show Profile
Again, very cool.Thanks for the explanation!
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