[Boatanchors] Fwd: [Milsurplus] Emergency Radio Room

[Al Klase]

Did Navy ships carry any last-ditch radio gear like the spark TX and 
crystal set that persisted on merchant ships for years?

Al

On 12/16/2020 11:39 AM, MICHAEL BITTNER wrote:
> It seems like there would have been at least one receiver capable of monitoring the 500 kHz emergency frequency. An RAK would do it, but there are probably other smaller radios for that function.
>
> Mike, W6MAB
>
>
>> Subject: 	[Milsurplus] Emergency Radio Room
>> Date: 	Tue, 15 Dec 2020 21:08:46 -0500
>> From: 	Steven Syrotynski <ssyrotyn at nycap.rr.com>
>> To: 	Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
>>
>>
>>
>> Good Evening All, i volunteer in the radio room on the USS Slater DE-766
>> here in Albany N.Y . There is in the aft part of the ship a room that
>> was used as an emergency radio room. We do not have a record of what
>> equipment might have been put there. I was thinking something like TCS
>> set and also both a low frequency and high frequency receivers . Any
>> ideas out there of what might have been in a room like that would be
>> greatly appreciated,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> W2TRH
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