US Navy Radioman Training Course Manuals - Bureau of Navigation
Radioman 3C -
1926 - "Instructions and Exercises to be
Used in Preparation For Advancement to the Rating of Radioman 3c"
- 1-3 - Navy Communication System -
Principles and Method of Instruction In and Learning Code
- 4-7 - Code Drill Exercises, Two and Three
Character Groups Practice Work
- 8 - Procedure
- 9 - Procedure-Calling and Miscellaneous
- 10 - Miscellaneous Procedure
- 11 - Procedure - Answering and Miscellaneous
- 12 - Procedure - Transmitting and Miscellaneous
- 13-15 - Duties of a Petty Officer - History of Radio, Penmanship and Typewriting, Wire Splicing, Switches, Circuit Breakers, Conductors and Non-conductors, Care and Management of Equipment and Power Machinery, Danger
Zone Procedure
- 16-18 - Circuits of Navy Type Receivers - Circuits of Navy Type Transmitters, Vacuum Tube Detectors and
Amplifiers
- 19-21 - Circuits of Arc Transmitters, Storage Batteries, Radiocompass
- 22-24 -Vacuum Tubes, Antennae, Loops, Magnetism, Theory of Sound
- " General Information for Radiomen of the Naval
Reserve to Accompany Navy Training Course" - Radioman Third Class, 71
pages
1941 - "Instructions for Use in Preparation For the Rating of Radioman 3c"
- 1 - Safety and Operation Precautions, Organization, Telegraphy
- 2 - Typewriting
- 3 - Telegraphy
- 4 - Radio Communication Procedure
- 5 - Magnetism and Electricity
- 6 - Electron Theory, Ohm's and Kirchoff's Laws
- 7 - Batteries, Meters
- 8 - Fundamentals of Radio
- 9 - Radio Direction Finder
Radioman 2C -
1925 - "Instructions and Exercises to be
Used in Preparation For Advancement to the Rating of Radioman 2c"
- 1-3 - Routing of Traffic, Ohm's Law, Communication Regulations, International Procedure
- 4-6 - Current Electricity, Commercial Traffic Regulations, Instructions for Government Radiograms, Electromagnetism
- 7-9 - Codes, Pamphlets, Fire Protection, First Aid, Generators, Naval Organization
- 10-12 - Motors and Motor Generators, Machine Shop Practice, Tools, Lubrication, Rheostats and Starting Boxes
- 13-14 - General Rules Concerning Operation, Power Circuits
- 15-16 - Mission of the Navy Communication Service, Oscillatory Circuits
- 17-18 - Commercial Radio and Telegraph Practice, Sound Apparatus
- 19-22 - Duties of Petty Officer -A.C. and D.C. Measuring Instruments - Organization of Communication Service Afloat - Transformers and Condensers
- 23-24 - Arithmetic for Radiomen - Gasoline and Crude Oil Engines.
1940 - "Instructions for Use in Preparation For the Rating of Radioman
2c"
- 1 - Mathematics
- 2 - Alternating Current Theory
- 3 - Circuit Elements
- 4 - Vacuum Tubes
- 5 - Receiver Principles
- 6 - Oscillator Circuits
- 7 - Power Amplifiers
- 8 - Transmitters, Antennae, and Sound
- 9 - Motor Starters
- 10 - Maintenance of Motors and Generators
- 11 - Mechanics
- 12 - Supervisory Duties
- 13 - Communication Instructions
Radioman 1C
1925 - "Instructions and Exercises to be
Used in Preparation For Advancement to the Rating of Radioman 1c"
- 1-4 - Duties of a Petty Officer, Compass Variation, Deviation, Azimuth, Calibration, Elementary Mechanics and Measurements - Plans, Blueprints, Sketches, Working Drawings, etc.
- 5-7 - Inductance, Capacity, Alternating Current, Ohm's Law as Applied to
A.C.
- 8-10 - Radio Circuits, Materiel Organization Aboard Ship - Naval Tube Transmitters.
- 11-13 -Low and Intermediate Frequency Receivers, Portable Field Equipment, Radio
compass
Radioman Chief
1929 - ""Instructions and Exercises for Radioman
1c in Preparation For the Rating of Chief Radioman"
- 1 - The chief radioman
- 2 - General electrical knowledge - Wire calculations
- 3 - Alternating currents
- 4 - High-frequency measurements - Calibration of condensers
- 5 - Master heterodyne frequency meter
- 6 - Model XA 500-watt high-frequency tube transmitter
- 7 - High-frequency receiver - Model RG receiver
- 8 - Naval correspondence - Accountability for Government
property - The G.S.K. system - Titles of stores and supplies - Custody
receipts, surveys, etc.
- 9 - Precautions required in the design and operation of vacuum
tube transmitters - Aircraft transmitter and receiver equipment
- 10 - Miscellaneous instruments - Piezo electric crystals -
Radio frequence transmitter
- 11 - Calibration of sensitivity of receiver - Calibration of
wave meter by comparison with standard wave meter
- 12 - Navigation
1940 - "Instructions for Use in Preparation For the Rating of Radioman
1c and Chief Radioman"
- 1 - Three-phase Systems
- 2 - Power Supply
- 3 - Transmitters - Advanced
- 4 - Radio Telephony
- 5 - Frequency Measurements
- 6 - Wave Propagation and Field Strength Measurements
- 7 - Antennas
- 8 - Receivers and Receiver Servicing
- 9 - Radio Direction Finders
- 10 - Internal Combustion Engines
- 11 - Underwater Sound