Hello, and just for once in 2007, let it be known that there are, and certainly were, many mobiles which are/were NOT Telephones !
Having radio's/cell-phones in taxis, fire engines, ambulances and the like was, and always has been, for the simple expedient of being able to talk to the driver to give him/her updates and re-directions to a point of direct interest to both the 'caller' and the 'called'. The mobiles we are going to talk about are vehicles and their equipments, which extended or added to the overall operational range and facilities offered by static terra firma based communication and radar station.
Naval Mobiles grew and multiplied because of the urgency of wartime facilities and the need for quick to respond mobile communication, D/F, control function and radar at any given geographic land position, to either directly assist in helping friendly assets or in an endeavour to intercept and to report upon the enemy.
Of the main units, there were three basic types:
| NUMBER | TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
| 1 | NRV and NRVSP | Naval Radio Vans and Naval Specialised Mobiles |
| 2 | MOCON | A container fitted with radio equipment which will always require transport when a location is required |
| 3 | A six letter word [two groups of three letters] where each group represents a function/facility which is different to the other group e.g., GENCON.. The first three letters or first Group is the FUNCTIONAL PORTION of the overall name and the second group is the DESCRIPTIVE PORTION. | The description is explicit when the Type
is known. For example, a GENCON means GEN = All power supply
mobiles, and CON = A Transportable container. Others in this group are:
Mobiles Air: AIRCONS, AIRTRAS, AIRVECS. where in each and every case |
Here are just a selection of samples.
NAVAL RADIO VANS
[MOBILES] PART ONE.pdf
NAVAL RADIO VANS [MOBILES] PART TWO.pdf
![Station YY [I don't know !] or could it be a Barrowboy ?](NAVAL%20SPECIALISED%20MOBILES_files/image002.gif)
CRYPTIC ?
Well yes, so let me explain.
Before, and during WW2, the Royal Navy had a COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM which could be formed from five different STATIONS known as:-
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station YY
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handcart
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central receiving room {CRR}
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transmitter van {TxV}
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station Z
These were the names given to types of VHF [V/HF] STATIONS.
VHF frequencies had been in use by the commercial world long before the Royal Navy started to use them, and what follows are files made up from one of the very first handbooks issued by the Admiralty. There are many interesting topics including VHF propagation, VHF fading, VHF interference, VHF aerials and polarisation, VHF polar diagrams, pictures and line drawings.
WW2 VHF STATIONS - PART ONE.pdf
WW2 VHF STATIONS - PART TWO.pdf
WW2 VHF STATIONS - PART THREE.pdf
WW2
VHF STATIONS - PART FOUR.pdf