Just curious… what ships today still have traditional radio operators? Specifically one who is a member of the American Radio Association (or foreign equivalent) or a Merchant Mariner Credential with endorsements for Radio Officer?

We have 2 x radio operators working opposite shifts. That’s their title, but their daily duties are primarily crew change logistics (flights, hotels, ground transportation, helicopter manifests, etc)

What licenses do they hold or required for the position?

[image] anchorman: their daily duties are primarily crew change logistics (flights, hotels, ground transportation Oh man do I envy you…

GMDSS endorsed in flag state seamans book. We generally route our ABs through this position for those that want to hawespipe to 3rd Mate. They are part of the emergency management team as well, taking the muster as they manage the POB list.

The T-AGS have Radio Operators. The only requirement is that they have had GMDSS, EKMS and LAN Manager. RO’s get paid equivalent of a 2nd Mate. The pre-positioned ship’s in Diego/Guam have Electronic Officers. The company prefers them to have an Engineering degree but a lot of the old timers are re…

I believe all ships I’ve sailed had HF radio. The newer generation of HF (high freq) radio are pretty straight forward to utilize but one still has to know about frequency utilization if it is not automated which few are outside the military. The pre digital HF equipment… I don’t think i ever saw…

[image] jimrr: The pre digital HF equipment… I don’t think i ever saw it used… It’s not so long ago that I was pulling weather faxes off the HF. Northwood still broadcast them until 2000-something. Still, I don’t think I ever heard anything on 2182.

I spent a year or two around 1989 intercepting SITOR telexes on HF. Had two receivers with a manual switch to shift the audio feeding the packet decoder from ship side to shore side and try to keep synchronization when the line turned around. I also spoke to Maersk at that time. They said “talk t…

all those teletype machines are still being used every night on the ham bands, I signed up for E-mail updates and get a couple nearly every day from green keys.com … I think that’s the right name. I have finally gone digital mode which sure isn’t TTY but where everything is going!

What ships today still have radio operators?

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What ships today still have radio operators?

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