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A radio operator (also formerly known as wireless operator in British and Commonwealth English) is a person who is responsible for the operations of a radio system and the technicalities in broadcasting.
The profession of radio operator has become largely obsolete with the automation of radio-based tasks in recent decades.[1] Nevertheless, radio operators are still employed in maritime[2] and aviation fields.[3] In most cases radio transmission is now only one of several tasks of a radio operator.[4][5]
The role of 'Wireless Operator' aboard aircraft during WWII was often abbreviated to 'WOp' or 'WOP' in official documents or obituaries.[6][7][8]
History
Radio operators were indispensable at sea in the early days of wireless telegraphy, and many young men were called to sea as professional radio operators who were always accorded high-paying officer status at sea. Subsequent to the Titanic disaster and the Radio Act of 1912, the International Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) conventions established the 500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio telegraph operators.[9]
Notable radio operators
- Harold Bride, assistant radio operator of missing name
- Harold Cottam, radio operator of missing name
- Jack Binns, last radio operator of missing name
- Jack Phillips, chief radio operator of Titanic
- Cyril Furmstone Evans, radio operator of Script error: The function "ship_prefix_templates" does not exist. during the sinking of RMS Titanic
- Robert Leith, last chief radio operator of missing name
- Graynella Packer, one of the first female radio operators aboard a ship.
See also
- Wireless telegraphy
- Telegraphist
- Marconi Company, one of the first wireless communication companies in history
References
- ↑ "Radio Operators". https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes274013.htm.
- ↑ GMDSS Radio Operator
- ↑ "Radio Operator: Information About a Career as a Radio Operator" (in en). Study.com. http://study.com/articles/Radio_Operator_Information_About_a_Career_as_a_Radio_Operator.html.
- ↑ "Being A Radio Operator: What You Really Do" (in en-US). https://www.owlguru.com/career/radio-operators/job-description/.
- ↑ "Agent Radio Operation During World War II — Central Intelligence Agency" (in en). https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol3no1/html/v03i1a10p_0001.htm.
- ↑ "FSGT Roy Edward Brook". 6 October 2015. https://fsgtroyedwardbrook.wordpress.com/wireless-operator/#:~:text=A%20Wireless%20Operator%20was%20in%20charge%20of%20managing,light%20needed%20to%20work%20by%20would%20not%20escape..
- ↑ "Handley Page Hampden Mk I AD730, 18 Apr 1941". Aviation Safety Network. 25 July 2018. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/213643.
- ↑ "WOP means Wireless Operator". All Acronyms. https://www.allacronyms.com/WOP/Wireless_Operator.
- ↑ International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, 10th June, 1948, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1953, p. 169, http://www.imo.org/KnowledgeCentre/ReferencesAndArchives/HistoryofSOLAS/Documents/SOLAS%201948%20UK%20Treaty%20Series.pdf, retrieved 26 January 2018
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