[Boatanchors] Tuning Your BCB Radio in the Late 1930s
howard holden
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Fri May 29 23:50:04 EDT 2020
Hi Perry!
Hope all is well with you, staying safe, etc.?
Last I heard – early March – there is an effort under way by a group in Louisville KY to save the Ling. Not sure how far they’ve come but they’re apparently serious. It needs to be dredged out of the muck, pumped dry – vandals let the boat fill with water – and then the river needs to be dredged so they can tow it out. Something like $100K minimum to do that. Then, the insides are for sure a mess, much machinery and equipment probably ruined, including I’m guessing the radio room. Too bad, when I left the RAL, both RBS, the RBO, an RBH, two of three antennas and switching, one periscope motor/controller, the signal lamp, much of the interior sound and alarm system, were working well, and we had made a little headway into getting the TBL up and running. Not to mention a complete working TBW, and a semi-functional TBX. Plus many smaller projects around the boat. All now for naught I’m afraid. While I’m certainly not in any position now to help with all that, I do hope the Louisville group is successful. It would be nice to see at least some of that work brought back to life.
All good here, bored but things here are slowly opening back up. Still running the heck out of the GO-9, it is currently accounting for about 65% of my logged contacts. The RF section is pretty much dead stock, and I’ve yet to replace any parts or tubes, after 12 years and thousands of hours on it. Planning on doing FD with one of my sons at our house. We usually go out with the local club and my kid and I account for about 70% of the club scores from our CW ops.
73, Howie WB2AWQ
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tuning Your BCB Radio in the Late 1930s
Hi how are you. Any news on the relocation of the Ling?
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From: howard holden <holden7471 at msn.com>
Date: 5/29/20 17:40 (GMT-05:00)
To: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tuning Your BCB Radio in the Late 1930s
Back in NJ from the late 90s through early 2010 our local club did a bunch of restoration and other work aboard the USS Ling SS-297 at the NJ Navsl Museum in Hackensack. One of our first restorations was the RBO in the crew mess. On Saturday mornings we’d keep the RBO tuned to WVNJ AM 1160 which had a big band/oldies program on Sat mornings. Great music through a great radio in a great setting.
73, Howie WB2AWQ/7
>
>> On 5/29/2020 11:29 AM, David Stinson wrote:
>> OK through the helpful input of classic radio people who
>> recognize the music, we can better date the recording to
>> the middle 1950s. I was confused that there was so much
>> late-30s music, but an ex-broadcast friend reminded me
>> that stations would play "oldies," as was big in the 70s
>> and 80's, because the older generation who likes that
>> music were the ones with money to spend.
>> Not so much now, LOL.
>> Even so, and even though it's pretty "muddy" in
>> the middle of the recording, it's still very interesting.
>>
>> 73 DE Dave AB5S
>>
>>
>>
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