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From: thomas%mvac23.uucp@udel.edu (Thomas Lapp)
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Subject: High-Seas Communications
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Date: 11 Dec 89 19:24:18 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 569, message 2 of 10

In several of the messages in the last week or so, it has been
mentioned that the Pittsburgh International Operator was used for
making high-seas calls.

Whilst tuning across the bands on my short-wave receiver, I once came
upon a transmission which seemed to be a high-seas conversation.  Can
anyone tell me more about how ship-to-shore (is this the same as
high-seas?) telephony works?  From the conversation I heard, it
sounded as though I was hearing only one of the parties, and an
operator? radio- person? who would tell someone, "O.k. your party is
on the other end", or "Your party is still there -- you may talk" (the
connection apparently was a poor one, since there was a lot of
repetition of sentences).

I guess I can assume that high-seas conversations are via radio
("What's that long wire we're dragging captain?" "Oh, that's our
telephone line!  Goes all the way back to shore... ;-), but can you
supply any more details?


Thanks,
                         - tom
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