[Milsurplus] visit to USS Iowa

[Ray Fantini]

It's great to see that ship with all the sixties and seventies era equipment on board, something like a time capsule. Would hate to see them tear everything out and replace with marginal collection of WW2 equipment. After all how Many TDE, RBB and RBC transmitters and receivers are there out there today for refitting a battleship?
Just seeing the AN/UYK-20 with its terminals and printers alone would be worth the trip for me, not to mention the stacks of R-1051 receivers and URT-23 transmitters.

Ray F

-----Original Message-----
From: milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 4:12 PM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] visit to USS Iowa

BB-61 was modernized in the early 1980's and all the earlier radio gear is gone, but you might enjoy some photos of the radio spaces I took during a visit last week http://www.navy-radio.com/ships/bb61.htm

The volunteers working on restoration of the radio spaces said they'd like to find the WW2 radio spaces and outfit them some day.

Cheers,
Nick K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com