In April 2011 the Wireless Radio Room operators celebrated 32 years of operation aboard the Queen Mary. W6RO volunteers are a very dedicated group of people who love nothing better than to man the active station controls and chat with visitors on a daily basis. Under the direction of Nate Brightman, for whom the radio room was recently named, many have served for a good number of years. They have been called upon in emergency situations to assist where needed and are much appreciated in the ham radio operators’ community.
The Queen Mary was considered the most modern ship of the times largely because of the services that she offered her passengers. One of those most touted was the Telephone. A Cabin or First Class passenger would now be able to pick up a telephone in their cabin and be connected to their business in any part of the civilized world. This was made possible by use of the low-wave transmitting and receiving equipment being more powerful than any up to now.
The Wireless-Telegraphy equipment was designed to overcome all but the most exceptional electrical disturbances and was comparable in every respect to the high-powered public service land stations. It was the largest and the most complete system afloat and exceeded 11 tons in weight.
The Radio Room Operators were kept extremely busy 24 hours per day. So advanced was the equipment that the radio room operators could process 30 telegrams per minute. They handled general telegraph traffic from ship to shore, press messages, short and long range telephone calls and received and redistributed radio broadcasts throughout the ship’s 38 loudspeakers. The Radio Room was an important part of the daily operation of the Queen Mary.
My girl friend and I came aboard last Wednesday and took the haunted encounters Tour. What is the name of the ghost hunter crew that disappered abord the Queen Mary. I thought I heard his last name was Sullivan. During the time at the pool, during the first darkening, something touched my right sholder. No one was near me. then after the tour we spent time on the sun deck and decided to leave. We were directed to an elevator. No mater what button was pushed we went someplace different. Finally the elevator stopped and the door did not open but the lights on the switches went out. Then the door opened and a strange man dressed in 30es to 50es closes came in and he had what looked like a sunday nuspaper folded, but the paper was blank. We explained our problem and he pointed over to a button and told Diann to push it.
She pushed it and the elevator finally went down. Diann got out and I got out but there was no one left in the elevator. Who was this guy.
The demeanor of your sale person at the Scottish shop (wouldn’t know the name since he was so rude we had to leave immediatel) has the most extraordinary attitude toward customers. It is unusual to see someone who is responsible for dealing with the public behave so brazen and actually drive folks from their custom. Guy was his name. Very bad for your business. The four of us (potential customers) would ask that you deal with him the same way he deals with others.