[Milsurplus] Museum display ships

[wctaylor at juno.com]

I've been reading the posts on this subject and you're all correct that
more information needs to be presented. I noticed in the first post I
read that the USS Bowfin SS287 was mentioned. I was part of the
restoration crew for her in 1980 until I was transferred from Pearl
Harbor in October of that year. I was an Electronics Technician on a
submarine home ported in Pearl Harbor. My involvement started with
getting the 1MC stack (ship wide announcing system) working but when they
found out that I was familiar with most all of the radio equipment the
curator let me get as much working as we had power for. 

If I was living in Hawaii now I'd certainly want to get the Bowfin on the
air during special events. Everything in radio was working when I left
except the TBL transmitter and the only reason for that was we didn't
have enough DC power to run it's MG set (dynamotor). The wire rope
antennas were taken off and the only antenna at the time was the whip on
top the periscope shears.

73
Bill Taylor KD4LXC
ex ET1/SS
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