Every Trick in the Book

here’s something exotic about communicating via single-sideband marine radio. The distorted, far-off way a conversation sounds is part of the deal, I guess. There’s an almost cinematic quality to it, especially if you’re participating in a call while standing in the wheelhouse of an oilfield boat pulled alongside a frowzy dock down in Trinidad, as I was back in the frowzy mid-80s. The marine superintendent