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SSUS Conservancy on Twitter: "#SSUnitedStates radio operator Paul MacCarthy remembers: "Whenever you were talking to someone from the ship, anywhere around the world, it was the first thing you would say —
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1950s, historical, on a passenger liner in the radio room, a uniformed male wireless or radio operator at his desk speaking on a telephone using the communications equipment of the era. The
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1960s, historical, a ship's radio officer on-board a Union-Castle steamship at his desk in his control room using an Imperial portable desk typewriter Stock Photo - Alamy
![Art Arroyo, the radio operator for the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship), attempting to make ham radio patches for the members of the ship's crew during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 1980. Art Arroyo, the radio operator for the D/V Glomar Challenger (ship), attempting to make ham radio patches for the members of the ship's crew during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. 1980.](http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb37554708/_3.jpg)