The USNS and the gray hulls in the Ready Reserve fleet all carry R/Os. Those ships still have real radio shacks with HF gear in them although they get used on Mil frequencies not on maritime freqs. Also, secure satellite, etc. Need a "Secret" clearance to get the job these days.
I think all the commercial ships dumped R/Os as fast as they could when GMDSS came into being. I actually re-licensed in 2003 and took a couple of ships over the the Persian Gulf for OIF-I and OIF-II. Taking the 2nd Telegraph *again* was kinda fun.. [Ending my involvement in the thread now. Sorry to stray so far and for so long..] 73, -Doug, W7KF On 04/15/2012 10:58 AM, Phil Kane wrote: > But how many ships still carry "ROs" as we knew them? Any deck officer > can operate the radiotelephone or radiotelex. --- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
