"Gary Schafer" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:45:32 GMT, "Doug"
wrote:

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From: "BOEING377"
Newsgroups: rec.boats.electronics
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:17 PM
Subject: Morrow SSSB-150... how to program this xcvr?


I bought n old Morrow SSSB-150 39 ch. synth HF marine radio and wonder
if
anyone has info on how to program it. Is this rig from the company in
Oregon
that made the early ham mobile gear and later got into Lorans? Never
saw
any
Morrow marine HF radios before this one. Thanks, Mark

I blew the dust off the shops old Morrow notebooks and found a "service"
manual for this radio. It is poor quality Xerox at best with schematics.
I
haven't had time to review it in depth, but all I found in a fast scan
regarding programming was a list of HF SSB stations that looks way, way
out
of date.
Yes, it was the original Morrow Company who made it, now part of ArNav I
think. IIMorrow came about later by the sons of the Morrow founder. The
were bought out by United Parcel Systems after a lot of money thrown away
trying to produce ACSSB commercially. Remember when US hams lost most of
220
MHz to that fiasco? Anyway, UPS uses the former IIMorrow to make GPS
tracking systems for their fleet and I believe the aviation part has
since
been acquired by Garmin. At least some warranty for Garmin goes to Salem,
OR
for aviation stuff.

Doug K7ABX


IImorrow started out with loran vehicle location equipment. It kind of
worked.
The ACSB equipment was built by SEA and they were responsible for the
220 band being acquired for it.

Regards
Gary

I have no recall of SEA being in the ACSSB push, but know for a fact
IIMorrow was, and ran employment ads every few months in the Portland
"Oregonian" for ACSSB engineers and technicians until shortly after UPS
acquired them. I know, as I submitted my resume in the late 80s. Perhaps
Bruce can address SEA involvement. I seem to recall IIMorrow was a
petitioner to the FCC for the 220 MHz frequency allocation which claimed it
was an unused amateur band in the Oregon area. In their area, back in the
50s and possibly even early 60s, 220 MHZ was unuseable due to military
preemptive use for the old old Nike missile system used to defend
metropolitan areas. The long since closed Camp Adair SAGE site and Mt Hebo
radar site were part of that system in the area.

73
Doug, K7ABX