I worked as a Ship's Officer in the 1980s and did hear that about clocks but had lost track of the details long ago. Thanks for a great piece of radio info.
Thank you for the kind words. Sorry, I couldn't make my original idea happen where I throw Greg and a hollow-core door into the freezing Atlantic to demonstrate the dangers of the sea. It was probably for the better.
My, how things have changed. In your opinion, what device these days will generally yield the quickest emergency response in the Puget Sound and Gulf Island, B.C. region?
cool. i remember in my early radio formitive years hearing that all am broadcast band (540 kc to 1700 kc) along the coasts of the usa had to stop transmitting evry so often and listen for ships calling . this continued till 1970. i think in my prior life i was a ships radio man or shore side radio.
Please kill the distracting, annoying, foreground music. The narration is otherwise excellent I used to have several friends that had been maritime radio ops, at least two of them are gone
Great to see a demonstrator making use of a pointer big step up from a big hand all over the object and the camera with a mind of its own the piano demo has no place here
I worked as a Ship's Officer in the 1980s and did hear that about clocks but had lost track of the details long ago. Thanks for a great piece of radio info.
A great video Greg. My Dad was a radio officer during WW2 and he would always check the time of each clock in the house.
Thanks!
That was a cool dive into a ship’s Radio room clock. Good job!
Thank you for the kind words. Sorry, I couldn't make my original idea happen where I throw Greg and a hollow-core door into the freezing Atlantic to demonstrate the dangers of the sea. It was probably for the better.
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I spent many hours on watch listening to 2181, and channel 16 during the late 1980's and early 1990's while in the Coast Guard.
My, how things have changed. In your opinion, what device these days will generally yield the quickest emergency response in the Puget Sound and Gulf Island, B.C. region?
I was hoping you were going to teach me how to tell time?
Nice job guys. I think I saw my self there... lol
cool. i remember in my early radio formitive years hearing that all am broadcast band (540 kc to 1700 kc) along the coasts of the usa had to stop transmitting evry so often and listen for ships calling . this continued till 1970.
i think in my prior life i was a ships radio man or shore side radio.
I learned something new today, Greg cuz of you. Thanks. Great video! 73 de K0WHW Bill
That's a freaking cool clock!
Great video thanks!
This looks interesting👍🏻👍🏻
Two hour hands, one black & one white?
Any info?
The white hand on mine is a second hour hand that you can set to a second timezone like UTC. Thanks for watching.
Great job 👏👏
Nice information! Iam myself RTIM holder.
One must never forget the wise words......of Cyndi Lauper.
thank you
Most if not all the facts in the video were used in test questions for the GROL license.
I'm marconist on the ship....
Wow nice xyl
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Please kill the distracting, annoying, foreground music. The narration is otherwise excellent I used to have several friends that had been maritime radio ops, at least two of them are gone
Great to see a demonstrator making use of a pointer big step up from a big hand all over the object and the camera with a mind of its own the piano demo has no place here