OK guys....we're bearing down on Museum Ships Weekend ham radio event again. Less than 2 weeks from today. It starts at 0000Z June 1, 2019 and ends at 2359Z June 2, 2019. They have 106 ships signed up right now and will certainly add a few more between now and then.
Pegleg....are you going to be on the beach again this year? Pathfinder...don't use I'm still moving into a new house for an excuse. And Alf....oh Alf...where the heck are you? Les...I know you used to listen in for a living but you may want to peruse the bands on a shortwave just to hear some guys on the USS Missouri or one of the other ships. I visited the Missouri back in March and got to go into the radio room and peruse the big discone antenna....pretty cool.
https://www.qsl.net/w/wa2tvs//museum/NAME TYPE OF SHIP LOCATION CALLSIGN K1USN Watson Museum Braintree, MA K1USN
USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier Charleston, SC WA4USN
USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier Alameda Point, CA NB6GC
USS Midway Aircraft Carrier San Diego, CA NI6IW
USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier Corpus Christi, TX W5LEX
USS Intrepid Aircraft Carrier New York, NY WW2CV
USS Montrose Memorial Attack Transport(Haskell Class) Montrose, CO N0P
**Ft Worth Aviation Museum Aviation Museum Fort Worth, TX AE5PR
USS New Jersey Battleship Camden, New Jersey NJ2BB
USS Massachusetts Battleship Fall River, MA NE1PL
USS Iowa Battleship San Pedro, CA NI6BB
USS Wisconsin Battleship Norfolk, Virginia N4WIS
USS Alabama Battleship Mobile, AL AL2C
USS Missouri Battleship Pearl Harbor, HI KH6BB
USS North Carolina Battleship Wilmington, NC NI4BK
USS Texas Battleship Houston, Texas NA5DV
USS Oklahoma Mast Memorial Battleship Mast Memorial Muskogee, OK WW2OK
USS Colorado Memorial (BB-45) Battleship Memorial Denver,CO AB0BX
SS Col. James M Schoonmaker Bulk Carrier Toledo, OH K8E
GK10065 Cargo Freight Ship Danube, near Vienna, Austria OE3XHS
Ex MV Dresden Cargo Ship Rostock, Germany DL0MCM
MV Iris-Joerg Cargo Ship Wischhafen,Germany DL0MFM
USCG Ingham CG Cutter Key West, FL NR4DL
USS Potomac CG Cutter/Pres. Yacht Oakland, CA. NE6JP
Claud W Somers Chesapeake Bay Skipjack Reedville, VA W4NNK
USS Olympia Cruiser Philadelphia, PA WA3BAT
USS Indianapolis CA-35 Memorial Cruiser Indianapolis, IN WW2IND
USS Littlerock Cruiser Buffalo, NY W2PE
**USS Boise Memorial Cruiser Boise, ID N7B
Aurora Cruiser St. Petersburg, Russia RF1A
USS Laffey Destroyer Charleston, SC NT4HI
FGS Moelders Destroyer Wilhelmshaven/Germany DL0MFX
USS Kidd Destroyer Baton Rouge, La W5KID
USS Turner Joy Destroyer Bremerton, WA NS7DD
USS Joseph P Kennedy, Jr Destroyer Fall River, MA NB1CR
USS Cassin Young Destroyer Boston, MA WW2DD
USS The Sullivans Destroyer Buffalo, NY N2HTL
USS Stewart Destroyer Escort Galveston, TX KK5W
USS Slater Destroyer Escort Albany, NY WW2DEM
**Fire Fighter Fireboat (America's Fireboat) Greenport, NY W2LCW
MV France 1 Frigate(Meteorological survey) La Rochelle, France TM1EJ
SS Grandcamp Memorial Jun 1 only-Sep Contact French Liberty Ship Texas City, TX AC0TX
SS Sankt Erik Icebreaker Stockholm, Sweden 8S?HRA
USCGC Mackinaw Icebreaker Mackinaw, MI W8AGB
Kraisin Icebreaker St. Petersburg, Russia R1LK
CSS Neuse (Jun 1 only) Civil War Ironclad Gunboat Kinston, NC KN4RAM
G?tz von Mannheim Landing Craft Mannheim, Germany DL0NW
SS John W Brown (Sat Jun 1 only) Liberty Ship Baltimore, MD K8JWB
SS Jeremiah O'Brien Liberty Ship San Francisco, CA K6JOB
SS High Flyer Memorial Jun 2-Sep Cont Liberty Ship Texas City, TX AC0TX
LS Ambrose Lightship East River, NY City, NY W2AQ
LS Huron Lightship Port Huron, MI NM8GS
Borkumriff Lightship Island Borkum, Germany DL0BRF
USS LST-325 LST Evansville, IN WW2LST
LST-393 LST Muskegon, MI N8LST
**Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Maritime Museum Vergennes, VT W1M
SS Selma Merchant ship WWI (Concrete Hull) Galveston, TX W5MSQ
**HNLMS Hoogeveen Minesweeper Den Helder, Netherlands PI4MRC
USS Lucid Minesweeper Stockton, CA N6MSO
**Roermond Minesweeper Lemmer, Netherlands PH6PAIL
KRS 575 ?Hans Beimler? Missile Corvette Peenemuende, Germany DL0MFN
Naval Tech'l Museum La SPEZIA Naval Museum A.R.M.I. La Spezia, Italy IY1SP
NSS Savannah Nuclear Merchant Vessel Baltimore, MD K3SAV
SS Rotterdam Passenger Ship Port of Rotterdam PI4HAL
M/V Oesterreich Passenger Ship Lake Constance, Austria OE9MSOE
RMS Queen Mary Passenger Ship Long Beach, CA W6RO
SS Keewatin Passenger Steamship Port McNicoll, ON VA3VGC
PT-305 Patrol Boat New Orleans, LA WW2NO
HMAS Gladstone Patrol Boat (Fremantle Class) Gladstone QLD, Australia VK4GLA
Troll Pinnace Heilbronn, Germany DL0MKH
SS City of Milwaukee Railroad Car Ferry Manistee, MI KS8B
PBR River Patrol Boat College Station, TX W5PBR
PB Niederoesterreich River Patrol Boat Danube/Vienna, Austria OE50NOE
Tall Ship Elissa Sailing Barque Galveston Island, TX N5E
MS Seefalke Salvage Tug Bremerhaven,Germany DK0SN
USS Ticonderoga (1814) Schooner Whitehall, NY W2C
K24 (U-461) Submarine Peenemuende, Germany DM3G
USS Cobia Submarine Manitowoc, Wisconsin NB9QV
USS Razorback Submarine N.Little Rock AR N5R
H. L. Hunley Submarine - Civil War Charleston, SC N4HLH
USS Nautilus Submarine Groton, CT N1S
USS Clamagore Submarine Charleston, SC NJ4DU
USS Cod Submarine Cleveland, OH W8COD
S-61 Delfin Submarine Torrevieja Spain EH5SUB
USS Drum Submarine Mobile, Alabama K4DSR
U10 (S189) Submarine Wilhelmshaven, Germany DK0SM
U-995 Submarine Laboe Germany DL0DMB
**Auguste Piccard Submarine Lucerne, Switzerland HB9APM
USS Cavalla Submarine Galveston, TX KK5W
USS Batfish Submarine Muskogee, OK WW2SUB
USS Silversides Submarine Muskegon, MI N8SUB
USS Pampanito Submarine San Francisco, CA NJ6VT
HMCS Onondaga Submarine Pointe-au-P?re, Quebec VA2GNQ
U9 Submarine Speyer, Germany DK0SP
Nazario Sauro Submarine Genoa, Italy II1NS
Novosibirskij Komsomolec (B-396) Submarine 641-B Moscow, Russia RU3AWK
USS Croaker Submarine Buffalo, NY KD2KEH
Flore Submarine Lorient, France TM2FLO
USS Blueback Submarine Portland, OR W7SUB
HMUb Nordkaparen Submarine Gothenburg, Sweden SL8SUB
Vesikko Submarine Suomenlinna,Helsinki, FINLAND OH2AN
USS Bowfin Submarine Pearl Harbor, HI KH6SP
Silent Service Memorial Submarine Memorial Marquette, MI N8S
**USAT LT-5 Tugboat/Cargo Transport Oswego, NY W2LGA
Red Oak Victory Victory Ship Richmond, CA K6YVM
Elettra (Marconi's Traveling Lab) Yacht Pontecchio Marconi, Italy II4ART