[MRCA] FW: USS Missouri Radio Room pics

[Mike Morrow]

That's depressing.  It's a lot more a modern ham rice box hobby shack than anything of navy historical value.  Museum ship organizations serious about accurately portraying navy history should NEVER let hams do what we see here on this ship.  Put the ham station, if there really must be one, in the visitors' center.

I was stationed on USS Intrepid in 1971.  A old ship like Intrepid or Missouri with relatively recent active service would never have those token RBB/RBC and RAK/RAL receivers shown here.  There should be a lot of R-1051*, T-827*, RT-618*, AM-3007 and later gear visible.

As a ham licensed since 1968, a Vietnam ERA and Cold War ex-LT-USN/LCDR-USNR, and one with long time interest in pre-1980 USN radio gear, I believe ham radio fun and games on historical ships always trivializes the ship's history and is a disservice to visitors...unless *only* the proper contemporary navy radio gear is used...then *maybe* not.

Mike  / KK5F 

-----Original Message-----
From: ken krausgill <ken.krausgill at verizon.net>
Sent: May 6, 2023 9:22 AM
To: <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: Tim Goetz <timothy.goetz at gchometesting.com>
Subject: [MRCA] FW: USS Missouri Radio Room pics

Gang,

Tim, KD2WYY, asked me to forward these to the group.

4/27 from Tim;

Sent from my iPhone

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