[Milsurplus] buncha RBOs on board USS Tenessee 1943 (1970s Crew Entertainment)

[Hubert Miller]

I had to laff when I read about Joan Baez records being a hit with the missile submarine crew !

( I sort of wonder if anyone here remembers when Ms. Baez sued, successfully too, the cartoonist Al Capp over
his "Joannie Phoney" cartoon representations. )

Around 1990 I bought a Hallicrafters SX-62 from a retired merchant mariner in Lynnwood, WA. He told me it
had come off an AK freighter class Navy vessel that was being overhauled in Tacoma, WA. I did see the article
in the newspaper about the overhaul and article had photos of a pair of AKs that were being done. I don’t know
how he acquired the radio but such things often happen off-book. Like how technicians ended up owning
classic IP-501s after Russian ships were refitted with current U.S. radio equipment at West Coast ports during
WW2.

I owned the SX-62 for a number of years. I liked the variety of controls for the audio parameters and listening
for example to Brazil national radio at 11775 kHz was excellent but I didn't like the non-bandspread HF bands.
The scattered dial markings like "Lebanon", "Vatican City", "Congo" etc were pretty hokey, and the expanded
FM band below 88 MHz was just useless dial space. So I sold it, with a spare junker set, for $75. I sort of regret
that now, but mostly not. I also bought from the same merchant marine fellow a big Grundig portable,
high-end set, but the shortwave bands had been zapped dead, I figured from maybe overexposure to some
ship's own radio transmitter.
-Hue














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