RANCBA - QSO the World. QSO. COMMUNICATOR'S FORUM 2. The. aim of this page is to pass on articles of interest to serving & ex- serving. Communicators and interested parties. I am sure that many of the names. Communicator shipmates.
We are now in direct contact around the globe via the Internet and email, so we are truly “QSO the World”. Please. Follow the links below for previous QSO pages: 1. Jul to Dec). 2. 00. Peter Cook sends. In July this year, I applied for and was successful in gaining employment at the. Port Hedland Port Authority. I left the ANZAC SPO in Rockingham where the HR.
Manager was none other than Shane Kneale (ex CCY). On arrival at Port Hedland, I. Gary (Norm) Duscher (ex CCY) and his wife JJ, (ex. LWRROT nee Morrow). I am wondering if the following article and attached photo. RANCBA website.“The attached photograph of Norm and Jenny Duscher with Captain Lindsay Copeman. CEO Port Hedland Port Authority/Harbour Master) was snapped moments after Norm.
Port. Norm joined the Port as a Port Marine Officer in July 2. Acting Marine Operations.
Manager. Since leaving the Navy, Norm has spent 1. Australian. Protective Service and two years as the Airport Manager Port Hedland. Since Norm joined the Port Authority, things have changed dramatically, for. Port exported 5. 0 million tonnes of ore, in 2. Port. will export 2. In the 1. 0 years that Norm has been here, 1. BILLION tonnes of Iron Ore have been exported out of Port Hedland and Port.
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Hedland is now known as the “Largest Bulk Export Port in the World”. In his. speech, the CEO spoke of the outstanding work that Norm has directly contributed. Port has made.”BZ NORMRegards,Peter Cook.
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Senior Operations Officer (East)Port Hedland Port Authority. Website: www. phpa. Lynton Michael passes on the. Navy News in the UK: Signal station signs off after 1. December 2. 01. 0AND so another treasured slice of Naval history is no more. With the signal CM1 Desig All – ‘I am closing down on all circuits’ – 1.
Rock came to an end and Gibraltar’s communications centre. It fell to Gibraltar’s Chief- of- Staff, Col Jim Mitchell, to. AB Luke Gough – the youngest member of the.
BOILER FLAT BALLET By Richard H. King, CDR USNR-Ret. At the time of this story, CDR King was LT JG, Main Propulsion Assistant (1965-1968), (Assistant Engineering. QSO the World COMMUNICATOR'S FORUM 2010. The aim of this page is to pass on articles of interest to serving & ex-serving Communicators and interested parties. Description: TFU Shadow Stormtrooper Prefix: TX Detachment: Spec Ops Detachment Context: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Shadow Stormtroopers are elite Special Ops. Arrested landing: A successful carrier landing; a 'trap'. The worst intentional abuse of the body a Navy pilot experiences. Literally a controlled crash into the deck.
RN team – to transmit it around the globe. The comms centre traces its routes back to 1. Falmouth, Gibraltar and. Malta Telegraph Company laid a submarine cable to the Rock and beyond. That established a permanent link with the mother country.. And the Admiralty.
Gib to man the. By WW1 cable was complemented by wireless and ‘aerial farms’ sprouted on the. Rock while a formal Naval Communications Centre was established in. Admiralty Tunnel beneath the mountain.
A generation later and another global conflagration saw Gibraltar become the eye. Mediterranean hurricane for much of the war. It also became ‘tri- Service’. RN, RAF and Army personnel manned.
North Africa and the Western. Mediterranean. That joint nature of the base (reflected in the Joint Operational Communications. Centre title) persisted post- war.
In the new world order, Gibraltar maintained. Med. At the peak of operations 1.
Commcen Gibraltar, as it had become known. Technology and automation saw personnel numbers tail off, such that by 2.
Tower, the headquarters of British Forces in Gib. Two. RN comms staff operating it, the decision. Faslane. Aside from an historic final signal, the rum barrel was. Officer in Charge Lt Cdr. Geoff Alexander raising a toast to communicators past and present.“From submarine telegraph, through wireless and radio to computer- controlled. Royal Naval communications staff have maintained a. Col Mitchell. “They have provided the Admiralty.
Flag Officers and commanders with the highest standard of military. We salute the passing of the Communications Centre, Gibraltar.”2. Follow this link for a You. Tube presentation of the HMAS CERBERUS museum. Many of you will know the current Curator, WOWTR Marty Grogan. Xp. NNVX2. 4PI. Certainly worth a visit if you are around the area at any time.
Please follow this link for a. Shorty Moffatt about his recent sea time and the memorial services. Please follow this. Naval Memorial in Brisbane. It would be appreciated if you could pass this on to others who may be. Royal Australian Navy 1.
July 2. 01. 1. Many thanks for your support and best wishes to you and yours for a Happy and. Healthy Xmas and all good things in the year to come.
Sonja and Alan Hellier. Hi my Dad Gordon "Jesse" Owens was a Radio Operator in the Navy until around. Am interested in getting in contact with anyone that may have. I was not quite 9 so would love to talk.
My email address is. I remember Jesse but didn't know him all that well. I'm. Sparkers out there who have stories to tell about Jesse. Please contact Katrina direct. Sandy Mc. Nab. In my research (or unrelenting quest, obsession, mania ! Signal letters answers I have recently. World Naval Ships website.
I have taken the liberty to include. Ships_Callsigns. htm to let all other visitors to the. URL of the RANCBA website to take them direct to my current.
Not sure if this address. I opened, but it seems to be working as the. SLOBs. that AE1 and AE2 may not have allocated signal letters, so I replied with a. AE1's aerial array believed to be for wireless.
Early days.. I have hit a brick wall with the Naval Historical Society, the ANMM, the NAA. ANU, the ANL, Lloyds register (am chasing a 1. I believe. the ANU may also hold. Somewhere in some office, Navy Office was in Melbourne, and as the Federal war. It is those files I am after.
This is a reply I received thinking I may have been on to the AE1 AE2 J1 J2 J3. J4 J5 and J7 submarine callsigns after doing a NAA search for possible files. UNCLASSIFIEDINQ1. To: Graham Mc. Nab.
Dear Mr. Mc. Nab,I have had a quick look at the file described below –Item details for: A1. Title. Wireless telegraphy - call signals.
Contents date range. Series number. A1.
Location. Canberra. Access status. Open. It contains correspondence between the Governor General, the Department of the.
Navy, the Prime Minister’s Department, the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Post- Master General’s Department in regard to proposals to move from a.
Some folios relate. The file contains no list of naval call signs for particular ships. If this file is of interest to you, a copy can be purchased via our online. Record. Search database. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further queries. I work. part- time, and can be contacted on the number below from Tuesday to Thursday. Sincerely,Bill Edwards.
Reference Officer. National Archives of Australia. PO Box 7. 42. 5Canberra Business Centre ACT 2. T (0. 2) 6. 21. 2 3.
F (0. 2) 6. 21. 2 3. If anyone can help Sandy with possible file titles or. As was foreshadowed at the AGM our annual Christmas barbecue will be held on. Sunday 1. 2th December 2.
Where: Greenway – adjacent to the Sea Scouts boatshed – access via. Mortimer Lewis Drive – same venue as last year. Date: Sunday 1. 2th December 2.
The Association will provide sausages, bread and a limited supply of beer and. Members relatives and friends very welcome. For catering purposes, please advise me if you are joining us. Peter Guy. Secretary. RANCBA- ACT6. 28.
Fm Ray Powell 7/1. ACT XMAS BBQ - If the weather is inclement on Sunday we have a Plan B. I have. secured the use of the WO/SS Mess & BBQ area at HMAS HARMAN. The BBQ area is. available from 1. The committee will make a decision around 1.
I can be contacted on 0. CYA all on Sunday either at Greenway or at Harman. This is to let you know that a stalwart of the Communications Branch, Commander.
Ted Lesh, has died. Ted was a long serving Communicator with WW2 service and had. HARMAN and was the Director of Naval Communications for many. Funeral details should be in the papers in the next few days. Would you. please pass this information on to RANCBA members.
Regards, Alan Brecht. Lest we forget. 3. The linked letter from.
Defence Force Welfare Association (DFWA) is currently doing the rounds. ESO's. It is in relation to the privacy of Service Records of. Australian Defence Force and former ADF members, held in the Australian. Archives. The 'open access period' for release of these records will.
This will mean an increase in the proportion. ADF and former ADF members who will still be living at the time their records. If you are concerned about your service history being available to all and. I'm sure more information on the above is available at the DFWA website at. It is my sad duty to inform you that Jack (John Roger) Duffey has crossed the. Many will remember him from both his active service in Korea and his later role.
Communications School at HMAS Cerberus where he was one of the best and. Australia’s next generation of Naval. Communicators were ready to serve the nation. Funeral Mass will be offered at St Francis Xavier Church Davey St, Frankston on. Friday Nov 2. 6, 2. The funeral will leave at the conclusion of the mass for burial at Frankston.
Memorial Park Cranbourne Rd, Frankston. Rosary will be recited in the above Church on Thursday Nov 2. Messages of condolence may be passed to me. I will pass them on to his family. Yours in communicating.
Ian Hogarth. Hon Sec RANCBA (Vic)Sad news, a doyen of the Comms Branch. Lest we forget. Fm John Rowe 2. 3/1. It should perhaps be mentioned that before he became an officer, Jack was an. Yeoman. He was the CY when I first went to sea in HMAS Vendetta.
He was a real gentleman with a very good knowledge of visual signalling. He was followed in Vendetta by Artie Wyatt then Bill Huggins, and we were a. Gloucester Cup in '6. Fm Jim Anderson 2.
Another of nature's true gentlemen lost to us all. Fm Sam Hughes 2. 4/1. Jack was the A/SCO on Melbourne when I joined as a young immature, stroppy LTO. I was having a little trouble with the CCY and his gang of CYs until Jack took. I never forgot that and I was so pleased to see him again at the. Melbourne reunion - he was a good bloke. Fm Bruce Spender 2.
Sorry to read That Jack Duffey had crossed the Bar. For those of us who have. Comms School staff during the 6. He will be remembered with. Our condolences to his family.
Fm Graham Bence 2.