Shipboard wireless room - 1912

From Phillip’s & McBride’s frantic CQD/SOS sent from the sinking Titanic right up to the bitter end of the 20th century, shipboard radio operators routinely sent dots and dashes flying across oceans.

All that eventually got replaced by INMARSAT and other services, but at this time of year it’s traditional and fun to remember the way things were once upon a time.

I don’t know who made this recording and I’m not the one narrarating it but it got a lot of hits and downloads from my site before I moved it to this blog format so here it is again, a recording of 500 kc shipboard traffic from 1974.

From the first 1/3 of the recording I can pick out callsigns EAS, ZDK, OXZ, EAL, EAF, FFM OZB and ZXA but I’ve missed quite a few.

As said in telegraphy even today ”HNY es 73″

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