WOO (call sign)
WOO was the radio call sign of the now-defunct AT&T high seas radiotelephone station in Navesink, New Jersey, USA. Before satellite communication systems were widely available, the only way ships at sea had to communicate with the rest of the world was via HF SSB connections to land stations. The AT&T high seas service consisted of WOO and her sister stations WOM (Miami, Florida) and KMI (Point Reyes, California). A vessel at sea would make radio contact with one of those stations, and the operator would patch the radio connection though to a telephone call made over the PSTN. The charges were typically settled by making the landline connection a collect call. AT&T shut down all three stations on November 9, 1999. It is believed that the only remaining commercial sources of high seas radiotelephone service are WLO in Mobile, Alabama and KLB in Seattle, Washington.
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