[Milsurplus] King KMC 95 Transceiver...and marine electronics

[Hubert Miller]

( related only by "marine electronics" topic )
I went for an early evening walk on the beach here. Near the jetty i was astonished to see the wheelhouse of a fish boat buried up to one half the wheel. 
The boat had wrecked a couple days before, trying to enter the jetty channel during a storm, aided by Coast Guard spotlights, but a huge wave smashed 
the boat. I had heard some of the activity on my scannner, but i am usually only half listening, and by the time i clued in, they were already talking about
recovering bodies on the beach. Anyway when i saw the wheelhouse i thought, i would really like to get the radio. Even if it was innundated with salt 
water, i could probably wash it out and maybe recover it. The radio was gone. I don't know if they used a built in radio or HT. I did see a GPS navigation
unit, which i dismounted and took. It had sea water still in it so i put it in a trash bag in my van, to wash out later. "Later" became much later and i 
eventually forgot about it in the van and threw out the bag thinking it just ordinary garbage. Just as well. A friend when i told him about my harvest of the
GPS told me it was "bad Ju-Ju"  ( bad luck ) to keep it. Anyway the situation solved itself. The half buried wheelhouse was removed by the state a few 
days later. 

I have a Northern Radio boat radio manual which says vapor from the fish caught is acidic or sulphuric and degrades electronics.
Forwarding to NWVRS newsletter for ( maybe ) general interest. 
-Hue Miller