Translated from Polish: "Recorded in the sixties. I listened to it, wrote it down, and supplemented it with photos of the ships and coastal stations that exist there."
The real life showed up on 500khz - always overcrowded but all things were running smoothly - I had a good time as a R/O in the german merchant navy from 1964 t0 1984 - 73
Ja, kan zo af en toe ook de verleiding niet weerstaan om even naar dit soort nostalgie te luisteren. Was van 1960 tot 1968 bij Radio Holland met als laatste schip het ms. Steenkerk/PHSG van de VNS.
Wow this brings back memories. I joined MIMCO as a junior RO in March 1961, After 3 years I left and joined the Royal Fleet Auxilliary with much better pay and conditions. I came ashore as a technician 10 years later to work for Redifon. Anyone remember the G341/R408, RMT1500/R551 main shipboard installations?
Listening to this makes me regret not building a 500KHz direct conversion receiver when I was a kid. All the radios I had had a hole in between the long wave and medium wave bands. I would pull the ferrite antenna out of a regular medium wave radio, and fiddle the local oscillator to get 2182 and listen to the Broadcasts on there and 2204. Just got my ham ticket back a few years ago and decided to give CW a real go. Sadly though, almost all the commercial Morse has disappeared, save for that station in South Korea, and the Russian and Chinese military, it’s pretty much just us hams
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Sadly all the cw finished with the demise of the R/O and as you say there is hardly any about nowadays .Working for Redifon I had a R408 main receiver in the shed attached to a whip antenna. I spent many a happy hour in the 80s listening on HF and copying morse bulletins for weather and navigation etc. Happy days
@@colinwheeler6937 Recently I've heard a bunch of hand sent CW around on the 45m Echo Charley frequencies between 6666KHz and 6670KHz. I can hear it in the evenings on local SDRs here in Aus. Mostly 5 characters alpha or alpha numeric, so I am assuming military. The Russian airforce and navy CW channels have been active as well. Sometimes I can hear the signals locally, often it's on a EU located SDR when I have had time. Quite a bit of activity given the current _activities_ over there I saw an old emergency hand crank lifeboat radio with a key and waterproof headset with TX/RX 500KHz, 2182, 4136 and a transmit only on some 6MHz frequency 6125 maybe ? THey were asking $500 for it. Thought it a little expensive, but an interesting piece of radio history
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Sounds like the lifeboat transceiver was the MIMCO Salvita. There was one stashed somewhere on board every ship I sailed on. Spent many happy hours during lifeboat drill getting the Salvita out and rigging the aerial whilst attaching the earth lead onto a handrail. Used to test on 500 2182 4136 and the 8mhz distress frequency of 8338 khz if memory serves. Never got a reply from anyone ever!!. Thank goodness for EPIRBS and satcom in later years. Gave you a fighting chance in mid ocean. Not done any short wave listening for a few years sadly. Mean to get back into it time allowing. I have lists of coast station and inter ship frequencies so hope to tune around some day
That's the way it was. Some of the coast station operators were worse than me. Portishead was always good though. The hams operate at silly speeds. Never send faster than you can receive.
ah yes but thats the skill.. trying to read crappy morse.. trying to send a QTC after being on the piss for a week in port.. the joys of it all my friend.
@@hughsegrave3979 Yeah I wked 500 for two years as a USCG Radioman and it was always a hoot! Love hearing this; although in the caribbean it seemed we always had a Qrn problem which made it even more fun! :)
@@allanbrown5435 Allan I loved working with NMR San Juan coast guard for the OBS weather reports, very efficient, both myself and the 3rd MATE RECEIVED COMMENDATIONS FOR OUR MET reports mostly thanks to your good selves, used another USCG STATION IN THE pACIFIC BUT CANT RECALL CALL SIGN, PANAMA? GOOD LUCK FROM DUBLIN IRELAND,
Частота вызова и бедствия 500кгц Передаётся сигнал тревоги,состоящий из 12 тире в течение 1 минуты, каждое тире длительностью 5 секунд, после 3 раза SOS de позывной судна терпящего бедствие.
Thank you for posting this. Wonderful hearing the sounds of this iconic band. Remember listening on a valve radio when I was a kid.
30 yrs as radio officer and retired as ch.mate offshore.it was best job in the Merchant navy.
Yes it was - by a country mile!
Old memories, very nice. Thanks
Translated from Polish: "Recorded in the sixties. I listened to it, wrote it down, and supplemented it with photos of the ships and coastal stations that exist there."
Que Bagunça! Ver o rádio e o manipulador que é bom, neca...
That was so cool. Loved hearing the different cw tones.
Happy memories! This old R/O thanks you.
Amazing how we never forget how to read this…happy memories
Thanks for reviving 500 kHz , it was a 'magic' period! For 7,5 years I enjoyed this job.
The real life showed up on 500khz - always overcrowded but all things were running smoothly - I had a good time as a R/O in the german merchant navy from 1964 t0 1984 - 73
Fantastic to hear this! Radio Officer (Radio Holland) 1963-1969
Ja, kan zo af en toe ook de verleiding niet weerstaan om even naar dit soort nostalgie te luisteren. Was van 1960 tot 1968 bij Radio Holland met als laatste schip het ms. Steenkerk/PHSG van de VNS.
Rewelacja. Gratuluję zacięcia i ocalenia pięknych kart historii radia i żeglugi jednocześnie.
73, HF1D
Wow this brings back memories. I joined MIMCO as a junior RO in March 1961, After 3 years I left and joined the Royal Fleet Auxilliary with much better pay and conditions. I came ashore as a technician 10 years later to work for Redifon. Anyone remember the G341/R408, RMT1500/R551 main shipboard installations?
Listening to this makes me regret not building a 500KHz direct conversion receiver when I was a kid.
All the radios I had had a hole in between the long wave and medium wave bands. I would pull the ferrite antenna out of a regular medium wave radio, and fiddle the local oscillator to get 2182 and listen to the Broadcasts on there and 2204.
Just got my ham ticket back a few years ago and decided to give CW a real go. Sadly though, almost all the commercial Morse has disappeared, save for that station in South Korea, and the Russian and Chinese military, it’s pretty much just us hams
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Sadly all the cw finished with the demise of the R/O and as you say there is hardly any about nowadays .Working for Redifon I had a R408 main receiver in the shed attached to a whip antenna. I spent many a happy hour in the 80s listening on HF and copying morse bulletins for weather and navigation etc.
Happy days
@@colinwheeler6937 Recently I've heard a bunch of hand sent CW around on the 45m Echo Charley frequencies between 6666KHz and 6670KHz. I can hear it in the evenings on local SDRs here in Aus. Mostly 5 characters alpha or alpha numeric, so I am assuming military.
The Russian airforce and navy CW channels have been active as well. Sometimes I can hear the signals locally, often it's on a EU located SDR when I have had time. Quite a bit of activity given the current _activities_ over there
I saw an old emergency hand crank lifeboat radio with a key and waterproof headset with TX/RX 500KHz, 2182, 4136 and a transmit only on some 6MHz frequency 6125 maybe ? THey were asking $500 for it. Thought it a little expensive, but an interesting piece of radio history
@@MidlifeRenaissanceMan Sounds like the lifeboat transceiver was the MIMCO Salvita. There was one stashed somewhere on board every ship I sailed on. Spent many happy hours during lifeboat drill getting the Salvita out and rigging the aerial whilst attaching the earth lead onto a handrail. Used to test on 500 2182 4136 and the 8mhz distress frequency of 8338 khz if memory serves. Never got a reply from anyone ever!!. Thank goodness for EPIRBS and satcom in later years. Gave you a fighting chance in mid ocean.
Not done any short wave listening for a few years sadly. Mean to get back into it time allowing. I have lists of coast station and inter ship frequencies so hope to tune around some day
Good vibrations ... I like those particular CW transmits . it's a pleasure to ear that . 73
Música celestial para mis oidos!
Desde luego que si!
Świetna robota!! Dziękuję, słucham dla przyjemności :)) SP5RF
International call and reply frequency. Also use in SOS, XXX, TTT and Wx QSS ......
I was working in the field from 1976 to 1999
Miss hearing (trying to copy) 500 kc CW! You never knew what, or who, would get on!
Que Bagunça!!!
It's fun to listen to but, my gosh, some of the ops' fists are horrible! And the traffic on 500 k - a calling/distress frequency - is allowed?
That's the way it was. Some of the coast station operators were worse than me. Portishead was always good though. The hams operate at silly speeds. Never send faster than you can receive.
That's why we had silence periods every 30 minutes
Some of that Morse is terrible. Wrong times between letters and groups
ah yes but thats the skill.. trying to read crappy morse.. trying to send a QTC after being on the piss for a week in port.. the joys of it all my friend.
@@hughsegrave3979 Yeah I wked 500 for two years as a USCG Radioman and it was always a hoot! Love hearing this; although in the caribbean it seemed we always had a Qrn problem which made it even more fun! :)
remember PJC@@allanbrown5435
@@hughsegrave3979 I like it! Clearly I was not the only one who sent slurred CW:-))
@@allanbrown5435 Allan I loved working with NMR San Juan coast guard for the OBS weather reports, very efficient, both myself and the 3rd MATE RECEIVED COMMENDATIONS FOR OUR MET reports mostly thanks to your good selves, used another USCG STATION IN THE pACIFIC BUT CANT RECALL CALL SIGN, PANAMA? GOOD LUCK FROM DUBLIN IRELAND,
za srce
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Херня какая-то ! Судовые операторы даже на простом вертикальном ключе работали с бОльшими скоростями , и качество передачи было значительно выше !
Частота вызова и бедствия 500кгц
Передаётся сигнал тревоги,состоящий из 12 тире в течение 1 минуты, каждое тире длительностью 5 секунд, после 3 раза SOS de позывной судна терпящего бедствие.
Bug keying dear God