Search and Rescue
Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand
Find your nearest SAR facility
AMVER (Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue system)
Coast radio stations preserved
New Zealand: Auckland Radio ZLD – Musick Point
Canada: Myrick Wireless Interpretation Centre – Cape Race, Newfoundland (reconstruction of the Marconi station that received the Titanic’s distress call)
Norway: Sørvågen Radio LFS
USA: Maritime Radio Historical Society (KPH, KFS, KSM) – Pt Reyes, California
USA: WCC – North Chatham, Massachusetts
Coast station references
Australia: Australian MCS
UK: Coastal Radio Communications
Worldwide: Maritime Radio Professionals
Radio Spectrum Management: Radiocommunications History in New Zealand
Tributes to coast stations
Ship stations and radio officers
Radio Officers Association – UK
Radio Officers – trafficlist.altervista.org
RNZN Communicators Association
The Modern Ship’s Wireless, Shipping Wonders of the World, 10 March 1936
Morse Code
Magazines and newsletters about Morse Code
Society of Wireless Pioneers: Sparks Journal (quarterly issues, 1977-1986)
Morsum Magnificat (quarterly issues, 1986-2004)
QNI Newsletter (2012-present)
Morse History & General
Morse Mad (lots of Morse info and links)
Telegraph Lore (landline telegraphy)
Examples of Morse Code in movies, television shows, etc.
Morse Operating Aids
Morse Abbreviations and Q Signals
Morse Code Operating Aids (from AC6V)
Morse Organisations
Learning Morse Code
Morse Code Practice (W1AW – American Radio Relay League)
Morse Code Translator (Type in your text and hear it in Morse!)
Morse Telegraphy Key Collections & Information
telegraphkeys.com (pictorial catalogue of all sorts of keys)
Video: Adjusting a Vibroplex Bug
Morse Equipment Suppliers
2B Radio Parts (unfortunately ships to USA only)
Current marine radio frequencies
Maritime New Zealand VHF radio channels
New Zealand Coastguard VHF channels
New Zealand Coastguard VHF Weather channels
Recordings of maritime radio
Classic 500 kc/s radiotelegraphy from such ships as RMS Queen Mary
Amateur radio on ships
Annual on-air event: Museum Ships Weekend (held in June)
American Victory (Liberty Ship) – Tampa Bay, Florida
Lucid (Minesweeper) – Stockton, California – Amateur Radio N6MSO
New Jersey (Battleship) – Camden, New Jersey – Amateur Radio NJ2BB
Olympia (Cruiser) – Philadelphia – Amateur Radio WA3BAT
Passat (4-masted barque) – Lübeck OT Priwall, Germany – Amateur Radio DL0KEG
Planet (Lightship) – Liverpool, UK – Amateur Radio GB2LBL
Queen Mary (Passenger liner) – Long Beach, California – Amateur Radio W6RO
Rotterdam (Passenger liner) – Rotterdam, Netherlands – Amateur Radio PI4HAL
Savannah (Nuclear powered freighter) – Baltimore, Maryland – Amateur Radio K3SAV
Vampire (Destroyer) – Sydney, Australia – Amateur Radio VK2VMP
Ship sites
Shipping History (forum)
Ships Nostalgia (forum>
Museums
Awarua Communications Museum, Awarua, New Zealand (site of Awarua Radio ZLB)
Ferrymead Post and Telegraph Society, Christchurch, New Zealand
Museum of Audiovisual Technology, Foxton, New Zealand
MOTAT (Museum of Transportation and Technology), Auckland, New Zealand