Phil wrote: > Memories of all the old Victory ships that were pulled out of "red lead row" in the late '60s and into the '70s to ferry supplies to the war in SE Asia. At the height of that operation we were doing mandatory Safety Radio Inspections at the rate of four per day in San Francisco alone.
For those "sparks" who were hams and had transceivers on board, very often the ham gear was better than the installed radio console equipment (ship's equipment could not be used for hamming although I'm sure that some tried...) -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402> In 35 years I can remember only one ship that had better equipment than my ham gear and I joined it in Japan 6 weeks before it was launched - JRC, of course. On a small cruise ship based in San Francisco (mid 1970s) I had a re-badged BC- 348 for an emergency receiver and the ship was only 15 years old. 73, Ken ZL1AIH (at ZM1A in the contests) K2s #767, #3725 - K3 on order<G> _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
