[GreenKeys] Why Navy gear?

[Nick England]

Why Navy? Well I’m just a nut about US Naval Communications and have
created a miniature message processing center. The US Navy bought Model 28
gear exclusively for almost 40 years. The first 6000 Model 28s went to the
Navy. Daniel is restoring Model 28 gear on board the USS Iowa museum ship
and Jeff is doing the same on board USS New Jersey. Every Navy ship was a
miniature message processing center with multiple teletypes. So that drives
some of the traffic. Maybe there is just more Teletype Corp gear in
circulation and that overlaps with US Navy use. And RCN too I think. If you
aren’t familiar with Jerry Proc’s RCN site, it is a delight to explore.
http://jproc.ca/rrp/index.html


The US Army bought Kleinschmidt gear after WW2 and the USAF bought both
Kleinschmidt and Teletype gear. While they had large message processing
centers, I don’t know of anyone attempting to recreate one.  A number if
people do restore tactical RATT stations with one or two Kleinschmidt
pieces.

Nick K4NYW, having fun….
https://www.navy-radio.com


On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 11:34 PM Fred Weksberg <VE3PIE at outlook.com

….

> Curious about why all the interest in Navy equipment.  What about the
> army, air force, etc. ?
>
> Since I am Canadian, I’m not familiar with all the military gear.
>

-- 
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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