Battleship TEXAS Amateur Radio Station participated in Museum Ships Week End 2016.
During the weekend we made a total of 303 contacts and worked 18 museum ships. Ships worked included the SS Cedarville, Watson Museum, Carl B Bradley, USS Turner Joy, USS New Jersey, USS North Carolina USS Wisconsin, USS Iowa, USS Alabama, USS Lexington, USS Ingham, USS Hazard, CSSA Hunley, Grand Camp Memorial, USS Cobia, USS Yorktown, USS Razorback, and LST-325. Operators were: K9GEM, Jerry Mueller; N5KT, Gerald Doucet; Logger, Gerald Doucet, Jr.; and KA5OXA, Mike Brannan. Reid Shipp acted as Docent to the public allowing the operators to work the contacts. Steve of Alpha Antennas donated a 60 foot J-Pole Senior which we hoisted from the Aft flag halyard on the Aft mast. We were able to reorient the J-Pole as a sloper from WNW to ENE and back to take advantage of propagation conditions. It was a great performer and accounted for many of our contacts. Including a contact with Sydney, Australia on 40 meters at 11:40pm TEXAS time. We definitely need to improve our computer logging skills in addition to contesting skills. Additional operators and bands would be welcome. A special thank you to the TPWD staff and overnight program staff for their help in making our two overnights work well. Battleship TEXAS was commissioned in 1914 as the most powerful weapon in the world. Her rich history is unique and she is perhaps the most significant warship still afloat. During World War One she served with the British fleet keeping the German High Seas Fleet bottled up in the North Sea. Between the wars TEXAS established many firsts in using aircraft and radio for gunnery and radar development. She fought through World War Two supporting the invasion of North Africa, Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa plus many other missions. Contact me for more information TNX Mike Brannan [email protected] 281-782-3046I
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