[Milsurplus] visit to USS Iowa

[Nick England]

Oh dear, I didn't mean to mislead anyone - The 1982 equipment and
wiring is all intact (unlike the New Jersey) - those radio spaces will
stay that way.
But the old WW2 radio rooms are located somewhere else aboard the ship
- not sure where. They were cleaned out in the modernization and the
radio guys were talking about restoring those areas to WW2
configuration.
Nick

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
> 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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> 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
>